Психология социального развития

The article shows the data of the empiric research of structural organization of personal self-regulation in correlation with student’s success in educational activity. It presents understanding of selfregulation as system-organized process of internal human activity of initiation, maintenance and regulation of different forms of voluntary activity in achieving of goals accepted by a person (O. S. Konopkin, V. I. Morosanova, G. S. Prygin and others).

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical research of the system of values and social attitudes of adolescents that are prone to suicidal behavior. The conceptual foundation for studying interconnection between axiological orientation and social attitudes is disposition system of a personality.

The article presents theoretical analysis of major approaches to the problem of socio-psychological mechanisms of professional representations’ establishment. It gives definitions of such terms as “professional representations”, “psychological mechanism”, “goalsetting”, “reflection”, “identification”, etc. The article uncovers peculiarities and content of major socio-psychological mechanisms of professional representations’ establishment of a future specialist at an institution of higher education.

The article presents results of the empirical study aimed at investigation of I-representations of active social network users on the World Wide Web and those who use the Internet as the information resource only.

The article discusses the problem of intended socialization of youth. It offers the data of psychological approaches (Gabriel Tarde, V. S. Mukhina, A. V. Petrovsky) that lie at the foundation of analysis of essence and mechanisms of socialization mechanisms. We singled out the main directions of work aimed at accompanying: professional self-determination, adaptation process in institutions of higher education, establishment of professional competences.

The article presents results of theoretical and empirical study concerning peculiarities of professional self-determination of high school students. It is shown that state of health is a factor, which determines conditions of personal socialization and peculiarities of its professional self-determination.

The article views intrapersonal proneness to conflict as a personal disposition. We have made an attempt to interpret proneness to conflict from the point of view of traits theory. The article overviews opinions of Russian psychologists that deal with proneness to conflict from the perspective of consciousness problem. Proneness to conflict is viewed through the idea of a personality that possesses an in-born set of dispositions, which allow it to react in a steady and certain way in different situations.

The article discusses the problem of self-actualization of a personality in its professional activity and achieving the peak of its personal development. Based on the analysis of various psychological theories and concepts it is shown that achieving of “acme” by a personality is based on the desire to grow and develop professionally or on its desire for self-actualization. Self-actualization can be better seen during the periods of professional crisis, which activate the processes of professional self-determination of a personality.

The article analyzes the experience in application of the method of a focus-group for researching and describing of the problem zones of educational sphere in terms of an general education school. The detected problem zones are described in the projection of psychosemantic geometry, art pictures and verbal reactions of the participants of the focus-group (n = 8; teachers with different time records and experience of work, teachers of elementary, secondary and high school).

In the article there is analysis of Russian and foreign sports’ psychology researchers’ points of view about functioning of cognitive psychic’s processes in dependence from features of sport’s kind. The unity of perception, attention and thinking in athlete’s activity is accented.