Abstract
The purpose of the study presented in the article is an empirical study of typical dynamic peculiarities spheres of young people’ social activity manifestation. The study sample consisted of 240 participants (Saratov region, Russia), including: university students (n = 120), age M = 18.22 (SD = 0.87) and high school students (n = 120), age M = 16.43; SD = 0.53. We used a questionnaire (R. M. Shamionov, I. V. Arendachiuk, E. E. Bocharova et al.) to register various forms of social activity and the degree of their manifestation, and the “Morphological Test of Life Values” technique (V. F. Sopov, L. V. Karpushina) to study various spheres of life. In the sample of students we have recorded a trend towards negative dynamics in the range of typical spheres of social activity manifestation, which, moreover, differs in its substantive multidirectionality. The study has shown that manifestation of various forms of social activity in the typical spheres of life is characterized by multidirectional dynamics of their motives’ actualization, depending on the person’s social and age-related status. The applied aspect of the problem under study can be implemented in the development of youth policy programs.
Highlights
Over the past decades, psychologists have been paying close attention to the problem of resources for society’s innovative development, social activity of a person as a subject of life-sustaining activity
The study of the dynamics of typical spheres of students’ social activity manifestation allows us to state that social activity acts as a multi-activity unit, endowed with characteristics of multidirectionality, multiple levels and selectivity of the functional manifestation within social activity development
According to the range of typical spheres of social activity manifestation we have recorded a tendency of negative dynamics among university students, which differs by its content multidirectionality
Summary
Psychologists have been paying close attention to the problem of resources for society’s innovative development, social activity of a person as a subject of life-sustaining activity. First of all, this is due to the modern status of the Russian society, which is distinguished by political, economic, social, and cultural heterogeneity and heterochronism, generating variability in the forms and types of social activity, its orientation, level characteristics of manifestation. Researchers, focusing on the active role of the life-sustaining activity’s subject, note that social activity of a person does not proceed mechanically within the logic of cause-and-effect relations [8]: the subject has the power to suspend his/her activity, delay or even “back off” it. Social activity is the effect of personal socialization, while on the other hand, it is the effect of subject’s development, that is capable of conscious and systematic implementation of his/his social essence in accordance with social ideas, norms, values, and role positions learned during the socialization process
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