Self-Image of Women in Co-Dependence: A Psycholinguistic Approach

<p>The work is aimed at identifying less obvious features of the Self-Image of women with co-dependency through quantitative and qualitative expert analysis of language material. The study (N=85) involved respondents aged 20 to 50 (M=34), of whom 99% were female. All survey participants answered that they were in a partnership. The following methods were used: the questionnaire "Codependency Profile" adapted by N.G. Artemtseva (the questionnaire was created by the Community of Anonymous Codependents "CoDA - Co-Dependents Anonymous") and the associative test "What Am I?" modified by T.V. Rumyantseva (M. Kuhn, T. McPartland). Data processing took place in three stages. At the first stage, the questionnaire on the codependency profile of N.G. Artemtseva was processed and compared with the theoretical provisions of E.V. Emelyanova on the types of codependent relationships. The second stage included linguistic analysis: identifying key lexemes obtained as a result of the Kuhn-Markpartland test and compiling antonymous pairs of descriptors based on them. At the third stage, we compared the data from stages 1 and 2: the identified descriptors were correlated with the types of codependent relationships. The obtained results make it possible to say that the main psychological features of the codependency phenomenon can also be reflected at the lexical level. This clearly demonstrates not so much the difference in the construction of the lexical-semantic space of the Self-Image in different types of codependent relationships, but the similarity of its representation. Thus, the lexical-semantic space in different types of codependent relationships has similar content and reflects the socially approved life characteristic of our socio-cultural context with a fixation on another person and his needs, the desire to gain self-worth and satisfy the need for control (over one's own life or the life of a partner).</p>