satisfaction with life

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical investigation, which is devoted to socio-political phenomena and satisfaction with life. The investigation was made on a sample of representatives of the Russian, Tartar and Kazakhs ethnic groups (Saratov Region, N = 30). The author uses a complex of psychological and pedagogic techniques: questionnaire compiled by the author (for investigation of attitudes to socio-political phenomena), «Index of satisfaction with life test» (by N. V. Panina), «Scale of subjective well-being» (by M. V.

We have attempted theoretical analysis of social and cultural determination of the criteria of subjective well-being on the basis of which judgments about happiness, satisfaction with life and oneself are drawn.

The results of an empirical study with the participation 104 people with different socio-demographic characteristics, surveyed with 9 techniques that assess satisfaction with life, adaptation to life, sub-jective well-being, as well as some personal factors of subjective well-being, such as value orientation, motivation, hardiness, psychological defense mechanisms. Based on the results of the cluster analysis four types of subjective well-being were identified and described.

Modern educational practice has no clear scientific understanding regarding the specifics of self-realization of adolescents in connection with their satisfaction with life. Analysis of the concept of “selfrealization” in modern psychological discourse has revealed three well-represented in scientific literature ways of self-realization: selfexpression, self-realization and self-transcendence. It is shown that methods of self-realization can be correlated with different vectors of its orientation.