Миграционная мотивация как условие формирования адаптационного ресурса совладания c потенциальной миграционной травмой

Annotation

The article examines migration motivation as a systemforming psychological factor that determines the internal logic of migration decisions, the configuration of adaptive resources, and modes of coping with potential migrationrelated trauma. It s argued that in contemporary migration research motivation is often treated as a secondary or partial factor, while its role in structuring adaptation and the subjective experience of loss remains insufficiently theorized. Drawing on a theoretical and analytical review of studies in migration psychology, acculturation research, and self-determination theory, the article substantiates the need to move from a factor-based understanding of motivation to its conceptualization as an integrated structure encompassing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components. The concept of motivational migration is introduced to capture qualitative differences in migration experiences determined by the dominant type of motivation. A typology of migration motivation is proposed, including reactive-avoidant, goal-oriented (instrumental), and value-autonomous (existentialnomadic) types. It is shown that the dominant motivational structure shapes the formation of adaptive resources such as resilience, self-regulation, tolerance of uncertainty, and cultural flexibility, as well as the ways migrants experience and cope with migration-related grief. The theoretical analysis provides the foundation for the development of an authorial questionnaire designed to operationalize motivational migration and adaptive resources, enabling empirical research into adaptation trajectories and potential zones of psychological risk in contemporary forms of mobility.

Keywords

migration motivation; motivational migration; adaptive resources; migration trauma; migratory grief; acculturative stress; digital nomadism; existential motivation; adaptation strategies.

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