Adolescent Personality Research Articles

HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE FORMATION OF A HARMONIOUSLY DEVELOPED PERSONALITY OF A TEENAGER BY MEANS OF LABOR EDUCATION

The article provides a historiographical analysis of the formation of a harmoniously developed adolescent personality and the influence of labor education on this formation.The statements of philosophers and scientists about the influence of labor education on the formation of a harmoniously developed personality are considered. The sayings of ancient Greek philosophers and the sayings of humanist philosophers about the combination of soul and body are given.The issue of harmonious personality development by means of labor education was considered in the chronology of their statements by philosophers and scientists of past generations, as well as their interpretation and understanding of harmonious personality development were analyzed.Such education takes place in the process of work for the creation of material and spiritual values in production, which causes the need for labor education, the study of the scientific foundations of modern production, the disclosure of their essence, the methods of forming students’ use of this knowledge and skills.The educational subject “Labor education”, and “Technology” in the institution of general secondary education ensures the study of the technical and economic foundations of modern production and integrates the disciplines of the natural and mathematical cycle. This fits well into the modern concept of STEM education in the institution of secondary education, which contributes to the formation of a harmoniously developed adolescent personality.STEM (S – science, T – technology, E – engineering, M – mathematics) is an acronym that is a direction of modern education that unites and integrates natural sciences (Science), technologies (Technology), technical creativity (Engineering), and mathematics (Mathematics). This direction covers educational programs based on natural science components.
 Keywords: historiographical aspects; harmoniously developed personality; labor education; adolescent personality; statements of philosophers; humanist philosophers; combination of soul and body.

Formation of value orientations of teenagers in social and cultural space of a traditional popular fest

The article reveals the potential of the socio-cultural space of a traditional folk holiday in the aspect of the formation of value orientations of the younger generation. The urgency of the problem is due to the increased attention to the search for effective ways to form the value orientations of adolescents in modern society, in the system in which the traditional folk holiday culture occupies a special place. A comparative and theoretical analysis of the literature on the research issue is utilized to meet the study’s aim. The paper analyzed the state of practical activities of cultural and leisure institutions with adolescents and concluded that the study of the traditional folk holiday as a socio-cultural space for the formation of the personality of adolescents allows justifying its great educational potential in the value-forming process.

Learning Lethargy in Relation to Negative Emotions, Creative Personality and Academic Enthusiasm of Adolescents

Learning Lethargy in Relation to Negative Emotions, Creative Personality and Academic Enthusiasm of Adolescents

The relationship between health and political ideology begins in childhood

We investigate whether childhood health status influences adult political ideology and whether health at subsequent life-stages, adolescent personality traits, or adolescent academic aptitude mediate this relationship. Using a national longitudinal cohort sample, we found that better health among children under age 10 was positively related to conservative political ideology among adults over age 64. Children with excellent health compared to very poor health were 16 percentage points more likely to report having a conservative political ideology in adulthood. Children with excellent health compared to very poor health were 13 percentage points less likely to report having a liberal political ideology in adulthood. Adults who had excellent health as children were 30 percentage points more likely to report conservative ideology than liberal ideology. However, the difference in ideological position for adults who had very poor childhood health was negligible. That is, the health and ideology relationship is being driven by those who were healthier early in life, after controlling for family income and material wealth. No evidence was found for mediation by adolescent heath, adult heath, adolescent personality traits, or adolescent academic aptitude. The magnitude of the coefficient for childhood health was substantively and statistically equivalent across race and sex. We discuss the possibility that, instead of being mediated, childhood health may actually be a mediator bridging social, environmental, and policy contexts with political ideology. We also discuss the potential of social policy to influence health, which influences ideology (and voting participation), which eventually circles back to influence social policy. It is important to understand the nexus of political life and population health since disparities in voice and power can exacerbate health disparities.

A person-centered approach to resilience and vulnerability in emerging adulthood: Predictions from parenting and personality in adolescence.

In this person-centered study, we identified different profiles of resilience and vulnerability in emerging adulthood in response to previously experienced stressful life events. Additionally, we examined whether mothers' and fathers' parenting and participants' personality traits in adolescence predicted these profiles. Data from the Flemish Study on Parenting, Personality, and Development (N = 346 families) were used. At T1 (2004; Mage = 11 years), T2 (2007), and T3 (2009), mothers and fathers reported on their parenting and their child's personality. At T4 (2018; Mage = 25 years), emerging adults retrospectively self-reported the occurrence and impact of 22 stressful life events and rated current behavior problems and subjective well-being. Latent profile analysis revealed three profiles: Competent (71%; low stress, low behavior problems, high subjective well-being), Vulnerable (21%; average stress, high behavior problems, low subjective well-being), and Resilient (9%; high stress, average behavior problems, average subjective well-being). Emerging adults in the Resilient profile had experienced higher levels of maternal positive parenting and were less emotionally stable and conscientious than those in the Competent profile. Furthermore, emerging adults in the Vulnerable profile were less emotionally stable than their peers in the Competent profile. These findings reveal new insights into the heterogeneous patterns of emerging adults' adaptation following stressful life events.

Strategi Peningkatan Karakter Siswa Melalui Program Taqwa Character Building di SD Darul Hikam Bandung

The crisis of personality or character can indirectly affect the personality and behavior of adolescents in life. A number of student deviant behaviors such as skipping school, stealing, lying, brawls between students, drugs, and lack of manners are considered failures in character education. This study aims to determine the strategy of improving student character through the Taqwa Character Building program at SD Darul Hikam Bandung. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. In this study, data were collected through direct observation and documentation as well as written reference sources such as journals, theses, and the official blog of SD Darul Hikam Bandung. The findings of this study indicate that the strategy for improving the character of students through the Taqwa Character Building program at the Darul Hikam Elementary School in Bandung is running well and effectively. Internal strategies, in the school environment, are implemented through classroom learning, habituation activities, a school culture that familiarizes with 5S: smile, greeting, greeting, courtesy, and also the existence of a TCB camp program which is a supporter of improving student character. While the external strategy, with the teacher involving parents of students to work together in strengthening the formation of student character.

Moral Development Strategy in Shaping Youth Character through Al-Qur'an

Lately, the era of globalization has had a less positive impact on the current generation of teenagers, this can happen because of the ongoing degradation of moral decline in youth. This is due to the acquisition of less positive things from various factors. For example, the excessive use of technology so that technology spoils teenagers, the decline in the behaviour of teenagers in everyday life, both in the school environment, home, and society in general. To find out strategies in forming youth morale by collecting research results in journal articles. This is intended for the younger generation to improve themselves and prepare them to build the nation in the future. A systematic review was used in the ways in obtaining Islamic youth character. Various articles are accessed using the Google Scholar database, ScieneDirect, and many other article search engines. This research showed that the moral formation of adolescents is very important in shaping the personality of adolescents and is expected to be able to build a nation with moral values ​​that the Qur'an guides. Not only that, teenagers are also equipped with moral values ​​to carry out their future lives.

Maturing out of alcohol and cannabis co-use: A test of patterns and personality predictors.

Reductions in substance involvement into adulthood are thought to represent a normative maturing out of substance use. However, patterns and predictors of maturing out of alcohol and cannabis co-use remain largely unstudied. Therefore, the current study tested developmental trajectories of alcohol and cannabis use from late adolescence into adulthood and whether late adolescent personality traits predicted trajectory class membership. Data come from a longitudinal study of family history of alcohol disorder (N=458). Age bands were created to model trajectories of drinking quantity, negative alcohol consequences, and cannabis use frequency from late adolescence (age 18-22) to young adulthood (age 23-28) and adulthood (age 29-36). Participants reported on their sensation seeking, conscientiousness, and neuroticism during late adolescence and their typical drinking quantity, negative alcohol consequences, and cannabis use frequency at each age band. Three trajectory classes were derived from an initial Parallel Process Growth Mixture Model: (1) low-risk maturing out of alcohol-only use, (2) high-risk maturing out of co-use, and (3) high-risk switchers who increased their cannabis use into adulthood. Late adolescent sensation seeking was associated with higher odds of being in both co-use trajectories, whereas a lack of conscientiousness was associated with higher odds of being a co-use switcher. We identified heterogeneity in trajectories of co-use, which suggests that a lack of maturing out of alcohol involvement may be accompanied by increased cannabis use. Moreover, late adolescent personality traits may predispose individuals toward riskier developmental trajectories of substance use into adulthood.

Individual differences in adolescent and young adult daily mobility patterns and their relationships to big five personality traits: A behavioral genetic analysis

Youth behavior changes and their relationships to personality have generally been investigated using self-report studies, which are subject to reporting biases and confounding variables. Supplementing these with objective measures, like GPS location data, and twin-based research designs, which help control for confounding genetic and environmental influences, may allow for more rigorous, causally informative research on adolescent behavior patterns. To investigate this possibility, this study aimed to (1) investigate whether behavior changes during the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood are evident in changing mobility patterns, (2) estimate the influence of adolescent personality on mobility patterns, and (3) estimate genetic and environmental influences on mobility, personality, and the relationship between them. Twins aged Fourteen to twenty-two (N = 709, 55 % female) provided a baseline personality measure, the Big Five Inventory, and multiple years of smartphone GPS data from June 2016 - December 2019. Mobility, as measured by daily locations visited and distance travelled, was found via mixed effects models to increase during adolescence before declining slightly in emerging adulthood. Mobility was positively associated with Extraversion and Conscientiousness (r of 0.17–0.25, r of 0.10–0.16) and negatively with Openness (r of −0.11 - −0.13). ACE models found large genetic (A = 0.56–0.81) and small-moderate environmental (C of 0.12–0.28, E of 0.07–0.15) influences on mobility. A and E influences were highly shared across mobility measures (rg = 0.70, re = 0.58). Associations between mobility and personality were partially explained by mutual genetic influences (rg of −0.27–0.53). Results show that as autonomy increases during adolescence and emerging adulthood, we see corresponding increases in youth mobility. Furthermore, the heritability of mobility patterns and their relationship to personality demonstrate that mobility patterns are informative, psychologically meaningful behaviors worthy of continued interest in psychology.

Personality and peer groups in adolescence: Reciprocal associations and shared genetic and environmental influences.

Peer groups represent a critical developmental context in adolescence, and there are many well-documented associations between personality and peer behavior at this age. However, the precise nature and direction of these associations are difficult to determine as youth both select into, and are influenced by, their peers. We thus examined the phenotypic, genetic, and environmental links between antisocial and prosocial peer characteristics and several personality traits from middle childhood to late adolescence (ages 11, 14, and 17 years) in a longitudinal twin sample (N = 3762) using teacher ratings of personality and self-reports of peer characteristics. Less adaptive trait profiles (i.e., high negative emotionality, low conscientiousness, and low agreeableness) were associated with more antisocial and fewer prosocial peer characteristics across time. Associations between personality traits related to emotionality (negative emotionality and extraversion) and peer behavior were largely attributable to shared genetic influences, while associations between personality traits related to behavioral control (conscientiousness and agreeableness) and peer behavior were due to overlapping genetic and shared environmental influences. Overall, results suggest a set of environmental presses that push youth toward both behavioral undercontrol and antisocial peer affiliations, making the identification of such influences and their relative importance a critical avenue of future work.

Pelatihan Parenting Melalui Pemanfaatan Internet Sehat Sebagai Upaya Mereduksi Kecanduan Media Sosial Pada Remaja

The influence of social media greatly affects the growth and development of personality in adolescents. The family is the initial environment for adolescents who have a strategic role in providing control over the prevention of addiction to social media in adolescents. Therefore, an understanding of the importance of parenting through the use of healthy internet is needed to reduce internet addiction in adolescents, as well as provide education related to prevention of addiction to social media in adolescents. This training activity was held for students of SMA Darul Falah Cihampelas, West Bandung Regency. The method of implementing the activity is to provide education related to the use of healthy internet as an effort to reduce social media addiction in adolescents.

Moral orientations as a factor of family self-determination development of modern students

Introduction. The phenomena of the family-demographic crisis in modern society make it necessary to study socio-psychological factors determining the actualisation and development of family self-determination of young people in the context of digital socialisation. Within the framework of digital socialisation, an open and contradictory information space determines the nature of marriage and family ideas, which are the indicative basis for the implementation of family behaviour by young men and women.Aim. The aim of the research is to identify the features of family self-determination of Russian students, who have different moral orientations and personality types in adolescence and early adulthood.Methodology and research methods. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study consists of: cultural-historical theory of psychological development and the doctrine of a psychological age by L. S. Vygotsky; age and psychological approach to the analysis of mental development in ontogenesis; theories of family self-determination of the individual; the concept of personality orientation by B. S. Bratus; concepts of moral self-determination by A. B. Kupreichenko, A. E. Vorobieva, Q. Guo, P. Sun, M. Cai, X. Zhang, K. Song; theories of prosocial behaviour by K. R. Bell, C. J. Showers; L. Kamas, A. Preston. The study involved 490 students, mostly enrolled in the humanities educational programmes. To achieve the goal, the author applied theoretical and methodological analysis of scientific literature; methods of comparison, generalisation, concretisation; psychodiagnostic method and mathematical and statistical methods of data processing.Results. The conducted research has shown that the dominant moral orientation of the personality in adolescence and early adulthood is a peace-building orientation. As a result of comparative analysis of the structural and content characteristics of family self-determination depending on personal moral orientation at different stages of age development, general and specific features were identified. The invariant characteristic is manifested in the fact that in the humanistic orientation there is a high importance of the value of happy family life; in the peace-building orientation – the strength of roles claims in the sphere of social activity for the stability of marriage and family relations, the importance of such marriage motives as self-actualisation and security; the probability of marriage regulated by unproductive feelings of revenge increases in the egocentric orientation. Adolescence is a sensitive period to form a cognitive component of family self-determination of student youth through the development of spiritual and moral sphere. The period of early adulthood is the most sensitive for the development of value-emotional and regulatory-behavioural component of family self-determination as a result of purposeful education of humanistic and peace-building orientation of students’ personality.Scientific novelty of the research lies in the establishment of the connection between the moral orientation of the personality and meaningful characteristics of family self-determination of students in adolescence (17–19 years) and early adulthood (20–22 years).Practical significance. The research materials and findings can be used for creating the education programmes in the organisations of higher education and for planning measures to preserve and develop traditional family values in the youth environment.

The Influence of Physical Exercise on Adolescent Personality Traits: The Mediating Role of Peer Relationship and the Moderating Role of Parent-Child Relationship.

Adolescence is the critical period of the formation for individual personality traits, which would be influenced by numerous factors such as the internal and external environment. In view of physical exercise as an important factor affecting the healthy development of adolescents, whether it would play an important role in the formation of adolescents’ personality traits and how it would work deserve further investigation. Based on the Ecological Systems Theory, this study has explored the relationship between physical exercise and adolescents’ personality traits, as well as the mediating effect of peer relationship and the moderating effect of parent–child relationship using 9,284 data samples. The regression results show that physical exercise has a significant positive impact on the development of personality traits such as neuroticism, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. Peer relationships exert the mediating effect between physical exercise and adolescents’ personality traits. However, parent–child relationship only moderates the effect of physical exercise on conscientiousness and agreeableness.

Emotional Problems, Dark Personality, Sexting and Grooming in Adolescents: the role of Gender and Age

The present study aimed to study if emotional problems (depression and anxiety) and Dark Personality were predictors of sexting and grooming, and if this behavior differs by gender and age. A sample of 728 adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age (38% male) from three private high schools located in Buenos Aires and Paraná, Argentina, was drawn. They completed a Sexting questionnaire, the Questionnaire for Online Sexual Solicitation and Interaction of Minors with Adults for grooming behavior, Rosenberg Scale of Psychosomatic Symptoms, the Kovacs Depression Inventory for Children and the Dirty Dozen for dark personality traits. Results showed that 12% of adolescents admitted having carried out a sexting behavior. Sending written messages of a sexual nature (11%) and photos (10%) were the most prevalent ways, followed by videos (4%), but no differences were detected according to gender. Significant predictors of sexting and the size of its explained variance ranged by gender (R² = 47% for females and R² = 12% for men, respectively). In the case of females, older age and psychopathy were the significant predictors. In the case of males, less anxiety was the significant predictors. A structural model explained a variance of 6% for sexting and 21% for grooming, indicating that there was no inavariance, according to gender. Linear regressions to predict grooming from sexting also suggested this relationship was moderated by gender.

Evaluating Measures of Externalizing Personality Pathology Traits in Black and White American Adolescents in a Program for at-Risk Youths

Adolescent personality assessment measures can aid in the identification of traits that are associated with various types of maladjustment. Externalizing personality pathology traits (e.g., antisocial, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorder features) are particularly relevant for many problematic outcomes, yet measures that assess these traits have not been validated extensively in diverse samples. The present study aimed to examine the properties of measures of externalizing personality pathology traits in a sample of White (n = 184) and Black (n = 99) adolescents participating in a residential program for at-risk youth. The fit of the proposed structure for these measures was tested in the sample as a whole and in each racial group separately. Associations between these measures and the count of disciplinary infractions received while in the program were also tested. Measures were found to have less than optimal fit in this sample, especially among Black adolescents. Suggestions for future research and clinical use of these measures are discussed.

Body-Related Attitudes, Personality, and Identity in Female Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa or Other Mental Disorders.

The psychological integration of body-related attitudes (BodyRA) is a critical developmental task in adolescence. Adolescents must adapt to their changing body image and body satisfaction. For young people, BodyRA (body dissatisfaction, bulimia, and drive for thinness) are connected to insecurities, which can disturb identity integration and personality development. Our goal was to evaluate the importance of BodyRA also for other mental disorders other than anorexia nervosa (AN), and the association between BodyRA with temperament and personality traits and identity diffusion. Data for the period of 2012 to 2019 were retrospectively analyzed from a convenience sample of patients in a child and adolescent psychiatric hospital (n = 114). The patients were 13 to 17 years of age and had a BMI of 11.9–36.1 kg/m2. As expected, BodyRA were found to be more pronounced in AN, as well as in borderline personality disorder (BPD), depression (DD), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). BodyRA correlated significantly with internalizing problems in patients with DD (r = 0.428–0.565, p < 0.01) and BPD (r = 0.680, p < 0.01) as well as with BMI (r = 0.404, p < 0.01) in patients with DD. Moreover, we detected significant correlations with impaired identity development in patients with DD (r = 0.482–0.565, p < 0.01) and BPD (r = 0.681–0.703, p < 0.01). BodyRA also correlated significantly with the personality traits of harm avoidance (r = 0.377–0.541, p < 0.01) and self-directedness (r = −0.537–−0.635, p < 0.01) in DD. These personality traits and bulimia were used as predictors for identity diffusion in the investigated disorders of this study. We conclude that BodyRA, harm avoidance and self-directedness are associated with identity development in adolescent females with mental disorders.

Actively Open-Minded Thinking, Personality and Critical Thinking in Spanish Adolescents: A Correlational and Predictive Study

Actively Open-Minded Thinking, Personality and Critical Thinking in Spanish Adolescents: A Correlational and Predictive Study

ОСОБЕННОСТИ АКТИВНОСТИ СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ПОДРОСТКОВ И ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ ЕЕ РАЗВИТИЯ ПОСРЕДСТВОМ ПРЕДМЕТНО-ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННОГО КОМПОНЕНТА ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ СРЕДЫ

Statement of the problem. The article fixes the relevance of the problem of student activity, since any human manifestations are associated with the phenomenon of activity, emphasizes the importance of studying the nature of activity, the mechanisms of its development and manifestation in order to determine possible ways of its purposeful formation. The purpose of the article is to analyze the results of the study of various manifestations of the activity of the personality of adolescents and to discuss the possibilities of the subject-spatial environment of educational institutions as a means of contributing to the formation of the activity of the personality of a modern schoolchild. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research includes activity-based (V.V. Davydov, M.M. Makhmutov, etc.); personality-activity-based (V.P. Zinchenko, V.A. Slastenin), systemic (B.F. Lomov, V.A. Hansen), ecological (J. Gibson), integrative (A.A. Volochkov) approaches, as well as the theory of personality activity (S.L. Rubinstein, L.S. Vygotsky, B.F. Lomov, K.A. Abulkhanova-Slavskaya), research in the field of environmental psychology (M.Chernoushek, K. Levin, J. Gibson, V.A. Yasvin). 155 students of grades 6–8 of MBOU “Secondary school No. 157” of Krasnoyarsk took part in the study. To analyze the results, the following samples were formed: all respondents studying separately in grades 6, 7, 8. The methods of WAM (well-being, activity, mood) developed by V.A. Doskin, N.A. Lavrentieva, V.B. Sharai and M.P. Miroshnikov were used; the method of diagnosing the components of socially-oriented activity by R.M. Shamionov; the method of diagnosing the components of subjective adaptivity “Readiness for action and evaluation of the implementation of action” by L.M. Kolpakova, S.V. Khusainova. Observation was also used as a research method. When processing the results, methods of average analysis, ranking, and qualitative analysis were used. Research results. According to the study of social activity, adolescents are motivated to be with others and be active in interaction and communication, but they have insufficient indicative basis for its implementation, they do not see opportunities for activity, which is accompanied by negative experiences and is expressed in low overall activity. Teenagers rarely initiate any actions, offer solutions, in order for the activity to manifest itself, efforts on the part of a teacher, mentor are required. That is, we can talk about reactivity in response to the demands of the school environment, rather than about our own activity. Teenagers find it difficult to choose such forms of their actions and behavior that would allow them to harmonize their own interests and the interests of others, rely on internal meanings and beliefs and combine them with the requirements of the society. Internal contradictions lead to emotional tension, negative experiences and rejection of activity as a defensive strategy to avoid failure. After passing through the physiological storm in the acute puberty period, from the point of view of the functional state, adolescents are ready to be active, but psychologically the realization of different types of activity is hindered by the difficulty in finding their own ways of its manifestation, consistent with the requirements of the social environment, as well as conditions in the educational environment that limit the manifestations of activity or do not contribute to the emergence of the need for activity. Conclusion. In adolescence, we can talk about the presence of a certain readiness of adolescents to be proactive in the educational environment, but unwillingness, inability to show it. In many ways, this may be due to environmental factors that set a certain well-being, mood, readiness for active actions. As one of the means of developing the activity of adolescents, we offer a co-participating design of the subject-spatial component of the educational environment.

Personality, Coping and Developmental Conditions in Female Adolescents and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: Influence on Metabolic Control and Quality of Life.

ObjectiveTo assess personality factors, coping, developmental conditions and quality of life in female adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and high vs.low HbA1c.MethodsPatients were approached at the Department for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna; n = 129 female adolescents (10 to 23 years, mean age 15.21 ± 2.91) with type 1 diabetes were included. HIGH-A1c was defined as HbA1c > 7.5%, LOW-A1c as HbA1c ≤ 7.5% and compared to a sample of 56 age-matched female healthy controls. Self-rating questionnaires were used to assess psychosocial factors: Children's Depression Inventory (CDI); Junior Temperament and Character Inventory (J-TCI); Eating Disorders Inventory-2 (EDI-2); KIDCOPE; Subjective Family Image Test (SFIT) and Inventory of Life Quality in Children and Adolescents(ILC).ResultsT1D patients with HIGH-A1c were younger at the age of diabetes onset, had a longer diabetes duration, a higher maximum BMI, higher depression score, and higher frequency of diabetic ketoacidosis in the last year. They showed significantly higher levels of fatigue, lower levels of taking responsibility, lower ability to set goals and lower self-acceptance, as well as higher levels of ineffectiveness, lower levels of emotional attachment within the family, in particular with the fathers, and used negative coping strategies more often compared to patients with LOW-A1c. Furthermore, they reported significantly higher burden of illness and lower quality of life.ConclusionsDisadvantageous personality and coping styles as well as developmental conditions should be addressed in the treatment of female adolescents with T1D with management problems.

Features of the motivational sphere of modern Russian schoolchildren: content, age dynamics, the role of the educational environment

Introduction. In the context of the multi-vector value system characteristic of post-industrial society, the problem of educating the younger generations becomes relevant, which is inextricably linked with the development of the motivational and need state sphere of children. Taking into account the importance of motivation in the formation of the personality of children and adolescents, the study of the orientation, content, age specifics, as well as the role of the educational environment in the formation of motivational preferences of modern schoolchildren was conducted.Materials and Methods. The method "Tsvetik-semitsvetik" and its modified version were used in the work. The study involved schoolchildren of grades 1-3, 5, 9 and 10-11 in Moscow and the Moscow region. The total sample is 897 people.Results. Students of all age groups demonstrate an individualistic orientation of the motivational sphere. The content of motivational preferences of schoolchildren has age specifics: younger schoolchildren are focused on various material goods, the acquisition of new qualities and abilities; younger teenagers – on material goods, self-development, the desire for recognition, mutual understanding; high school students are focused on their "adult future", which reflects the peculiarity of their social situation of development. Modern schoolchildren of all ages are more focused on parents and the needs of the family than on their peers. Universal desires associated with an interest in solving the problems of a wide society are represented minimally in the motivational sphere of schoolchildren of all age groups.The educational potential of a modern school and the measure of its impact on the formation of the motivational sphere of students are limited by the contradictory conditions of the functioning of educational institutions.Discussion and Conclusions. The revealed features of motivational preferences of modern schoolchildren reflect the objective socio-cultural conditions of growing up in a post-industrial society focused on individualization and the values of personal consumption and generally correspond to the value orientations of the majority of modern adult Russians.