Another Person As a Factor in the Organization of the Subject-Spatial Environment of the Individual's Home

Abstract

In the article, the relationship “personality — environment” is considered from the standpoint of a subjective approach. Through habitation, appropriation, and personalization of the environment, a person realizes the desire to “extend himself in the world of things and territories”, thereby achieving consistency of internal and external, gaining a sense of authenticity of being and personal identity.By turning the environment into the spaces of his being, a person changes it for another person, and becomes an environmental circumstance for him. Home is one of the most personalized, private territories of a person, which she shares with loved ones, taking their subjective position. Another person becomes a factor in the organization of the object-spatial environment of the individual's home. This reasoning creates opportunities for understanding and interpreting both the processes of communication, with its accompanying collisions of togetherness-disconnection, and for understanding the deep personal processes of gaining authenticity, personal identity, etc. The empirical study examined the features and differences of young spouses (40 couples) in the manifested psychological characteristics (the need for privacy, support for partner privacy, identification with a partner, satisfaction with marriage) due to cohabitation, the fact that the marital partner becomes a factor in the organization of a private object-spatial environment of the home. It was found out that young women have a wider repertoire of environmental behavior aimed at realizing the need for privacy and receive greater support for this need from their husbands, they also know how to build what is necessary in the organization of the subject-spatial environment. Young men are more likely to identify with their spouses, experience not only psychological fusion with them, but also less distanced from them spatially (this implies a decrease in the need for privacy, and less need for the privacy of things).