Theoretical conceptualization of the phenomenon "legal behavior" in psychology of personality

Myasnikova Z. V.

The article is dedicated to the research of legal behavior in the sphere of psychology of personality. This concept traditionally has an attitude to juridical scientific and practical field and is studied through two opposite aspects – lawful and illegal. The actuality and requirement in conceptualization of this scientific direction is explained by the fact, that all the researches due to legal behavior are discussed only within the law field. But as for the author of the article, this category also has to be studied in the psychological field. The aim of the article lies in an attempt of analysis of the term «legal behavior» through the sphere of psychology of personality. The influence factors were defined there by the method of system analysis of scientific sources. Among them the author’s distinguished life conditions, education and morality levels, social environment, individual life experience, life situation. In the conclusion the author noted, that in every concrete life situation due to person’s legal behavior some factors will be more pronounced but some of them may not exert their influence at all.

Keywords:legal behavior, lawful, illegal, asocial, influence factors, social environment, course of life, motive, requirement, morality level.