Student’s time-awareness formation: self-organized personality as promoting factor for mental health

Abstract

This paper presents the main results of the research aimed at determining the conditions of formation of a technical university student’s time-aware, self-organized personality to promote one’s mental health. The actuality of the research is caused by engineer education modernization, which main goal is to prepare competitive specialists in the field of engineer task solving, people capable of maintaining their physical and mental health. The paper gives a definition of mental health, which is considered as a state of well-being in which a person can realize his/her potential, cope with life stresses, can work with great productivity and make a contribution to one’s society. The investigation proves that man’s mental health index is his/her ability of self-organization. It is specified that time management, self-organization skills are regarded as a regulated conscious person’s activity, which aims at goal setting, time planning, as well as self-control, self-analysis and self-correction of one’s actions and behaviour. Time management, self-organization skills secure timeliness and succession of student’s life cycles changes. The research results involve working out the structure of a university student’s time-aware, self-organized personality, determining the complex of pedagogical conditions of formation of a technical university student’s time-aware, self-organized personality, maintaining one’s mental health. The self-organized personality’s structural components are as following: motivation-value, cognition and action-reflection components.