self-concept

The article contains the results of empirical research in revealing of social-psychological peculiarities of interpersonal communication of students of Psychology department. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the students of Psychology department during the process of interpersonal communication use, in contrast to the students of other departments, more pliable and less conflict provoking strategies of behaviour, they are inclined to cooperate with others and ready to understand them, are willing to make a compromise.

The article presents the results of a study conducted in order to study personality factors that determine characteristics of interpersonal relations of teenagers, whose formation is the most important task of their age development. It is shown that the process of formation of selfesteem and self-concept of teenagers occurs in the context of their socio-psychological development and is determined by the system of interpersonal relations. The results of the empirical study performed on a sample of teenagesr aged 12–14 (n = 85) are presented.