Жизненные приоритеты современных старшеклассников

Abstract

Today we acknowledge the requirement for scientific theory of youth self- determination, taking into account the development trends of Russian society and changes in the value consciousness of student youth. The problem of life goals and priorities choice in the process of youth self-determination is recognized as the most important and complex. The authors consider life priorities as phenomena, facts and actions, which a person prefers in a choice situation. The goal of research is to reveal the priorities in different groups of needs satisfying and their interconnection with life satisfaction and basic believes. The research is based on the leading positions of the axiological and personal-activity approaches. The authors use a complex of diagnostic methods and techniques to reveal the priority needs, basic believes and person life satisfaction. The study includes 100 senior schools pupils of Krasnodar Region and Republic of Bashkortostan. Results. The research revealed priority needs (in accordance with A. Maslow pyramid) that meet active and passive positions of schoolboys and girls. It as well established the relationship of life satisfaction indicators, basic believes and their corresponding needs together with its correlation analysis. The internal mechanisms of school youth life prioritization were also revealed. The conclusions about the necessity to create conditions for actualization and realization of needs that correspond to active life position were made. The results of this study determine the directions of further researches of psychological and pedagogical conditions of school youth life prospects building and life prioritizing.