Cognitive Aspects Of Family Self-Determination Of Young Males And Females

Abstract

In respect of the transformation of the institution of family and marriage that occur in modern society, the problem of studying the content and structural characteristics and socio-psychological determinants of family self-determination of young people is of a particular relevance. The purpose of the study is to diagnose the connection of cognitive abilities (intelligence, pragmatism - active imagination, conservatism - radicalism) and the content and structural characteristics of family self-determination in adolescence. A set of the following complementary research methods was used: theoretical and methodological analysis of literature sources, questionnaires, psychodiagnostic techniques (the Cattell’s 16 PF test, the semantic differential technique developed by Charles Osgood, the “Level of Value-Availability Ratio in Different Life Spheres” questionnaire of E.B. Fantalova, the “Uncompleted Sentences” projective technique and “Test of Life-Purpose Orientations” of D.A. Leontiev), as well as methods of applied statistics (the Mann — Whitney U-test, the Spearmans rank correlation coefficient). Cognitive abilities are seen as an essential factor that plays an important role in the development of family self-determination in adolescence. The results of the study presented in the article show that cognitive abilities determine the development of the following components of self-determination in adolescence: cognitive, value and emotional, regulatory and behavioral, motivation, reflection. When assessing the connections between cognitive abilities and components of family self-determination, both general and specific peculiarities are observed among young males and females. The obtained results will be useful for purposeful formation of family self-determination in youth under the conditions of educational environment of a higher educational institution.