Instrumental means for identifying personal inclination to protest behavior

The article presents data on the identification by instrumental methods of two groups of respondents with different response options to situations with various kinds of restrictions and pre requisites for interpersonal conflicts, one of which demonstrat ed a tendency to protest behavior as a reaction to restrictions and as a manifestation of a low level of self-control, and the second one showed a tendency to conformism as a manifesta tion of high self-control and internal readiness to follow gener ally accepted behavioral norms.