Keyword: «social frustration»

The article discusses the interrelation of social frustration and value orientations of a person in a pandemic. Social frustration, being a kind of mental stress, reveals the degree of dissatisfaction with person's social position, or achievements. Looking back and analyzing his achievements, a person feels satisfaction, or dissatisfaction with one or other criteria of relevant activity. Thoughts about certain omissions in a person's life form corresponding frustrations. Thus, social frustrations are interrelated with a person's awareness of the goals he has not achieved. The system of value orientations determines the content side of the personality's orientation and forms the basis of its relations to the outside world, to other people, to itself, the basis of the worldview and the core of the motivation of life, the basis of the life concept and the "philosophy of life". Presents an empirical study of the formation of personal value orientations in the context of a pandemic and their correlation with the level of social frustration among representatives of various age groups. To diagnose the level of social frustration of a person was used the method “Diagnosis of Social Frustration” (Wasserman L.I. in the modification of V.V. Boyko). In addition, for the study of value orientations was used the method “Value orientations” (M. Rokich). The results of our empirical research represent a clear view of how the overall picture of the hierarchy of personal value orientations is changing due to the level of social frustration among respondents of different age groups in a pandemic.