Психология социального развития

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.

The article deals with socio-psychological characteristics of the components of the phenomenon of parenthood: fatherhood and motherhood. The analysis of the major challenges of fatherhood and motherhood in contemporary society; indicate the social and psychological causes of the crisis of parenthood in contemporary society.

Article is devoted to consideration of philosophical aspects of a phenomenon of scientific creativity. It is shown, that the creative knowledge is active creative process as a result of which there are essentially new systems, knowledge, skills, techniques.

The article is disclosed to historical-philosophical, scientifical and psychological preconditions of formation of acmeology in Russia. We consider the stages of development of the Acme of man, describes the universal principles of acmeology.