Dmitry Leontiev
Biographic Data
| ID | 5455065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dmitry Leontiev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dmitry |
| FAMILY NAME | Leontiev |
| SIGNATURE | LEONTIEV D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2252-9805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The “Trajectory” graphical method: A tool for assessing life path dynamics
Context and relevance. The issue of personality changes has become a significant trend in personality research over the past decade. Traditional approaches to assessing the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic work are based on comparing measurement results before and after intervention. Objective. To test the visual “Trajectory” method for assessing the perceived trajectory of individual development and to verify its convergent validity. Methods a…
The Contribution of Motivation and Personality Potential to the Success of Professional Football Players
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the personality characteristics of football players and their in-match effectiveness as well as their level of preparedness for the season. Characteristics of motivation and personality potential (conceptualized as self-regulation potential) were examined as possible psychological predictors of success in football. The following battery of techniques was used: the Universal Perceived…
Positive personality resources as buffers against psychological reactions to uncertainty
Petrovsky's Century: Psychology and Time. Meeting in the Library named after K.D. Ushinsky
On May 14, 2024, the K.D. Ushinsky Library of the Russian Academy of Education hosted a Round Table devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Arthur V. Petrovsky. The meeting was moderated by his son, V.A. Petrovsky. M.I. Melia, N.N. Nechaev, V.T. Kudryavtsev, E.V. Shchedrina, D.A. Leontiev, and V.S. Sobkin shared their memories about the scientist and his contribution to psychology. Vivid episodes of personal meetings with A.V. Petrovsky …
Structure and Distortions of the Activity Autoregulation: A Growing Edge of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
The problem setting of the paper stems from the idea of shifts in research contexts and explanatory emphases in the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) through the history of its development, specifically, from putting the concepts of mediation and self-regulation (autoregulation) to the foreground in the 1980s. The immediate object of the analysis are the elements of activity autoregulation structure and varieties of its possible distorti…
Tom and His Passion
Contemporary Approaches to the Quality of Life: From Objective Contexts to Subjective Ones
Objective. Quality of life is a category that develops in breadth, but not in depth. The objective of the paper is a brief systematic presentation of the approaches of three influential representatives of a field of interdisciplinary research of the quality of life, who contributed a lot to the shaping of this field and its development till our days, namely Alex Michalos, Joseph Sirgy and Ruut Veenhoven. Background. These three concepts of qualit…
How you choose is as important as what you choose: Subjective quality of choice predicts well-being and academic performance
The paper proposes a new approach to measuring key parameters of choice as intentional activity. We developed and validated a 23-item questionnaire called the Subjective Quality of Choice (SQC) which measures four qualitative dimensions of choice: elaboration, emotional valence, autonomy, and satisfaction with the outcome. Three validation studies are presented. In the first study respondents from a large online sample evaluated the quality of im…
Апробация и валидизация методики веры в свободу/детерминизм (FAD–Plus) на российской выборке
Мировоззренческие убеждения, относящиеся к вере в свободу и предопределенность окружающего и внутреннего мира, являются предметом активного обсуждения и исследования в психологической науке. В статье представлены результаты апробации и конструктной валидизации русскоязычной версии методики веры в свободу/детерминизм (FAD-Plus) Д. Полуса и Дж. Кэри. На выборке студентов первого курса факультета психологии московских вузов (N = 372) подтверждена ор…
Covid-19 and Subjective Well-Being: Perceived Impact, Positive Psychological Resources and Protective Behavior
While negative psychological effects of COVID-19 pandemic are actively studied, little is known about the eventual positive reactions to the pandemic including the capacity to see positive opportunities in this situation and about personality resources that may help to cope and to maintain well-being despite lifestyle restrictions. The aim of our study was to reveal positive personality resources that contribute to buffering the negative effects …
Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: From inclinations to relations. Problem of personality: Petersburg School of Psychology
Leontiev Dmitry, Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: from inclinations to relations. Problem of personality: Petersburg School of Psychology. Culture – Society – Education no 2(16) 2019, Poznań 2019, pp. 55–69, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-0422. DOI 10.14746/kse.2019.16.4. The article discusses the dynamics of psychological views of A.F. Lazursky (1874-1917), author of one of the first theories of personality in the world of…
Meaning at the Crossroads of Evolution, Culture, and Person
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory in the Framework of the “Functional Paradigm”
The aim of the paper is to highlight the peculiarity of the present state of the Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) in psychology, as compared to previous periods of its development in the general context of theory development in psychology. The author sees this peculiarity in that CHAT exemplifies an anti-Aristotelian paradigm which suggests that the actual functioning of living systems cannot be fully deduced from a priori existing morp…
Human Being and Lifeworld: From Ontology to Phenomenology
The paper is focused on one of the key aspects of Fyodor Vasilyuk’s contribution to the elabora¬tion of methodological foundations of psychology, namely, on the construct of lifeworld and ‘lifeworld ontology’ as a metatheoretical framework for the understanding of human life and activity in the world. The paper is subdivided into four sections. The first one gives the justification of Vasilyuk’s approach in terms of ‘lifeworld ontology’, reveals …
Freedom and responsibility go together: Personality, experimental, and cultural demonstrations
In three cross-cultural studies we tested the premise that psychological freedom (aka autonomy) and personal responsibility are complementary rather than conflicting, and the further premise that freedom causes responsibility, rather than vice versa. In all studies, (a) supporting autonomy in an experimental context increased responsibility-taking after failure, whereas emphasizing responsibility did not; (b) measures of dispositional autonomy an…
Subjective and Objective Factors in Subjective Semantic Evaluations of Architectural Works
This research focuses on empirical explorations of psychological features and mechanisms of the perception of architectural space in professional architects; on the comparison of semantic evaluations and factors of the perception of architecture in professionals and non-professionals; and on the comparison of the perception and semantic evaluation of real architectural works and of photographs of these works, measured with techniques of personali…
The Potential of Subjective Semantic Methods in Exploring the Perception of Architecture
This research focuses on empirical explorations of psychological features and mechanisms of the percep¬tion of urban architecture and on the specifics of the perception of buildings of various architectural styles. The techniques employed included those of personality and architectural semantic differential and the Value Spectrum technique. Four factors were found to have a significant impact on an individual’s percep¬tion and understanding of ar…
Social Support in the Structure of Personality Resources in Individuals with Disabilities
The paper focuses on the issues of social support of individuals with disabilities and describes its role in the development and maintenance of subjective well-being of persons in situations of disability. A special external resource for overcoming unfavorable developmental conditions, social support is interlocked in a continuous relationship with psychological resources of personality. One of its distinctive features is that it implies the subj…
Life as Heroic Effort: Merab Mamardashvili’s Psychological Topology of the Way
Life as Heroic Effort: Merab Mamardashvili’s Psychological Topology of the Way
The object of the reflections proposed in this paper is Merab Mamardashvili’s system of thought explicated in two books: Lectures on Proust (1995) and Psychological topology of the way (1997). Both books are transcripts of lecture courses read in 1982 and 1984/85. They are devoted to the same subject and have multiple overlaps; however, they are textually quite different. The second text presents a somewhat later version of Mamardashvili’s attemp…
Maslow Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Approaching Worldview Structure with Ultimate Meanings Technique
A person's worldview as a system of subjective generalizations about reality is an important though nearly neglected focus of study. The ultimate meanings technique (UMT) elaborated by the author during the last decade is presented as a research and clinical instrument that makes it possible to reconstruct the system of a person's beliefs about the goals and meanings of human life. Structural and content analytical indices applicable to UMT, alon…
Human Being and Lifeworld: From Ontology to Phenomenology
The paper is focused on one of the key aspects of Fyodor Vasilyuk’s contribution to the elabora¬tion of methodological foundations of psychology, namely, on the construct of lifeworld and ‘lifeworld ontology’ as a metatheoretical framework for the understanding of human life and activity in the world. The paper is subdivided into four sections. The first one gives the justification of Vasilyuk’s approach in terms of ‘lifeworld ontology’, reveals …
Approaching Worldview Structure with Ultimate Meanings Technique
A person's worldview as a system of subjective generalizations about reality is an important though nearly neglected focus of study. The ultimate meanings technique (UMT) elaborated by the author during the last decade is presented as a research and clinical instrument that makes it possible to reconstruct the system of a person's beliefs about the goals and meanings of human life. Structural and content analytical indices applicable to UMT, alon…
Freedom and responsibility go together: Personality, experimental, and cultural demonstrations
In three cross-cultural studies we tested the premise that psychological freedom (aka autonomy) and personal responsibility are complementary rather than conflicting, and the further premise that freedom causes responsibility, rather than vice versa. In all studies, (a) supporting autonomy in an experimental context increased responsibility-taking after failure, whereas emphasizing responsibility did not; (b) measures of dispositional autonomy an…
Approaching Worldview Structure with Ultimate Meanings Technique
A person's worldview as a system of subjective generalizations about reality is an important though nearly neglected focus of study. The ultimate meanings technique (UMT) elaborated by the author during the last decade is presented as a research and clinical instrument that makes it possible to reconstruct the system of a person's beliefs about the goals and meanings of human life. Structural and content analytical indices applicable to UMT, alon…
Maslow Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Life as Heroic Effort: Merab Mamardashvili’s Psychological Topology of the Way
The object of the reflections proposed in this paper is Merab Mamardashvili’s system of thought explicated in two books: Lectures on Proust (1995) and Psychological topology of the way (1997). Both books are transcripts of lecture courses read in 1982 and 1984/85. They are devoted to the same subject and have multiple overlaps; however, they are textually quite different. The second text presents a somewhat later version of Mamardashvili’s attemp…
Life as Heroic Effort: Merab Mamardashvili’s Psychological Topology of the Way
The Potential of Subjective Semantic Methods in Exploring the Perception of Architecture
This research focuses on empirical explorations of psychological features and mechanisms of the percep¬tion of urban architecture and on the specifics of the perception of buildings of various architectural styles. The techniques employed included those of personality and architectural semantic differential and the Value Spectrum technique. Four factors were found to have a significant impact on an individual’s percep¬tion and understanding of ar…
Social Support in the Structure of Personality Resources in Individuals with Disabilities
The paper focuses on the issues of social support of individuals with disabilities and describes its role in the development and maintenance of subjective well-being of persons in situations of disability. A special external resource for overcoming unfavorable developmental conditions, social support is interlocked in a continuous relationship with psychological resources of personality. One of its distinctive features is that it implies the subj…
Subjective and Objective Factors in Subjective Semantic Evaluations of Architectural Works
This research focuses on empirical explorations of psychological features and mechanisms of the perception of architectural space in professional architects; on the comparison of semantic evaluations and factors of the perception of architecture in professionals and non-professionals; and on the comparison of the perception and semantic evaluation of real architectural works and of photographs of these works, measured with techniques of personali…
Freedom and responsibility go together: Personality, experimental, and cultural demonstrations
In three cross-cultural studies we tested the premise that psychological freedom (aka autonomy) and personal responsibility are complementary rather than conflicting, and the further premise that freedom causes responsibility, rather than vice versa. In all studies, (a) supporting autonomy in an experimental context increased responsibility-taking after failure, whereas emphasizing responsibility did not; (b) measures of dispositional autonomy an…
Human Being and Lifeworld: From Ontology to Phenomenology
The paper is focused on one of the key aspects of Fyodor Vasilyuk’s contribution to the elabora¬tion of methodological foundations of psychology, namely, on the construct of lifeworld and ‘lifeworld ontology’ as a metatheoretical framework for the understanding of human life and activity in the world. The paper is subdivided into four sections. The first one gives the justification of Vasilyuk’s approach in terms of ‘lifeworld ontology’, reveals …
Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: From inclinations to relations. Problem of personality: Petersburg School of Psychology
Leontiev Dmitry, Aleksander Lazursky’s personality concept: from inclinations to relations. Problem of personality: Petersburg School of Psychology. Culture – Society – Education no 2(16) 2019, Poznań 2019, pp. 55–69, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-0422. DOI 10.14746/kse.2019.16.4. The article discusses the dynamics of psychological views of A.F. Lazursky (1874-1917), author of one of the first theories of personality in the world of…
Meaning at the Crossroads of Evolution, Culture, and Person
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory in the Framework of the “Functional Paradigm”
The aim of the paper is to highlight the peculiarity of the present state of the Cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) in psychology, as compared to previous periods of its development in the general context of theory development in psychology. The author sees this peculiarity in that CHAT exemplifies an anti-Aristotelian paradigm which suggests that the actual functioning of living systems cannot be fully deduced from a priori existing morp…
Апробация и валидизация методики веры в свободу/детерминизм (FAD–Plus) на российской выборке
Мировоззренческие убеждения, относящиеся к вере в свободу и предопределенность окружающего и внутреннего мира, являются предметом активного обсуждения и исследования в психологической науке. В статье представлены результаты апробации и конструктной валидизации русскоязычной версии методики веры в свободу/детерминизм (FAD-Plus) Д. Полуса и Дж. Кэри. На выборке студентов первого курса факультета психологии московских вузов (N = 372) подтверждена ор…
Covid-19 and Subjective Well-Being: Perceived Impact, Positive Psychological Resources and Protective Behavior
While negative psychological effects of COVID-19 pandemic are actively studied, little is known about the eventual positive reactions to the pandemic including the capacity to see positive opportunities in this situation and about personality resources that may help to cope and to maintain well-being despite lifestyle restrictions. The aim of our study was to reveal positive personality resources that contribute to buffering the negative effects …
Contemporary Approaches to the Quality of Life: From Objective Contexts to Subjective Ones
Objective. Quality of life is a category that develops in breadth, but not in depth. The objective of the paper is a brief systematic presentation of the approaches of three influential representatives of a field of interdisciplinary research of the quality of life, who contributed a lot to the shaping of this field and its development till our days, namely Alex Michalos, Joseph Sirgy and Ruut Veenhoven. Background. These three concepts of qualit…
How you choose is as important as what you choose: Subjective quality of choice predicts well-being and academic performance
The paper proposes a new approach to measuring key parameters of choice as intentional activity. We developed and validated a 23-item questionnaire called the Subjective Quality of Choice (SQC) which measures four qualitative dimensions of choice: elaboration, emotional valence, autonomy, and satisfaction with the outcome. Three validation studies are presented. In the first study respondents from a large online sample evaluated the quality of im…
Positive personality resources as buffers against psychological reactions to uncertainty
Petrovsky's Century: Psychology and Time. Meeting in the Library named after K.D. Ushinsky
On May 14, 2024, the K.D. Ushinsky Library of the Russian Academy of Education hosted a Round Table devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Arthur V. Petrovsky. The meeting was moderated by his son, V.A. Petrovsky. M.I. Melia, N.N. Nechaev, V.T. Kudryavtsev, E.V. Shchedrina, D.A. Leontiev, and V.S. Sobkin shared their memories about the scientist and his contribution to psychology. Vivid episodes of personal meetings with A.V. Petrovsky …
Structure and Distortions of the Activity Autoregulation: A Growing Edge of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
The problem setting of the paper stems from the idea of shifts in research contexts and explanatory emphases in the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) through the history of its development, specifically, from putting the concepts of mediation and self-regulation (autoregulation) to the foreground in the 1980s. The immediate object of the analysis are the elements of activity autoregulation structure and varieties of its possible distorti…
Tom and His Passion
The Contribution of Motivation and Personality Potential to the Success of Professional Football Players
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the personality characteristics of football players and their in-match effectiveness as well as their level of preparedness for the season. Characteristics of motivation and personality potential (conceptualized as self-regulation potential) were examined as possible psychological predictors of success in football. The following battery of techniques was used: the Universal Perceived…
The “Trajectory” graphical method: A tool for assessing life path dynamics
Context and relevance. The issue of personality changes has become a significant trend in personality research over the past decade. Traditional approaches to assessing the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic work are based on comparing measurement results before and after intervention. Objective. To test the visual “Trajectory” method for assessing the perceived trajectory of individual development and to verify its convergent validity. Methods a…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Personality (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 works)