Color type of personality and state (Aura_2003)

The computer program "Color type of personality and state" is intended for a wide range of specialists and ordinary people for whom the control and self-control of changes in the psycho-functional state under the influence of various psychogenic factors is important. It provides for a comparative analysis of indicators of a person's condition obtained at different times.

This program is designed to help instructors, trainers, doctors and other specialists in the psychological support of the activities of rescuers, athletes, firefighters and people of other professions operating in extreme conditions.
She can also serve each person as his “Personal Home Psychologist”, helping him to cope with the problems and difficulties that arise in life.

Hardware Requirements:
* IBM PC AT compatible computer
* At least 8 MB of RAM
* SVGA monitor and video adapter
The program runs under Windows / ** operating systems.

The program "Color type of personality and state" uses the methods of color selection M. Lusher. They are based on ideas about the psycho-functional system of regulation of the state and behavior of a person.
A person's preferences for certain colors are not accidental. They reflect the background of the mood, general mental activity, the motivating force of the motivational sphere, the intensity of needs, tendencies and attitudes of a person. In other words, this stimulus material, acting simultaneously on different sides of the human psyche, reveals its leading pattern, a symptom complex that has a typological coloration and manifests itself in a certain direction of motives, experiences, the type of perception and processing of information about the world around, the style of thinking and, ultimately, the way regulation of their own behavior.

The extensive experimental and empirical data obtained confirm the fruitfulness of the application of these methods in various fields of psychology (vocational guidance, personnel selection, psychological counseling, psychotherapy, etc.).
This program implements not only the standard procedure for ranking colors, but also the procedure for their pairwise selection. In the latter case, the test taker is presented with two colors on the principle "each with each", of which he must give preference to one. Since this procedure largely reflects the sphere of a person's relations, the style of his communication and the method of social adaptation, this method is used for career guidance, identifying the features of a person's interpersonal relations, his style of behavior in conflict situations.
At the same time, the data obtained with the help of the color rank test, characterizing the sociogenic needs of a person, his emotional-volitional sphere, are used in the program to assess his current psycho-functional state.

As a result, an actual or comparative assessment of the personality and state of a person is given in the following aspects:
* Characteristic of personality type
* Activity of the endocrine system
* Psychophysical endurance
* Style of behavior in conflict
* Predisposition to stress

Based on the test results, recommendations are formulated for optimizing and correcting the mental state and behavior of the examined person.