SELF-ATTITUDE DEVELOPMENT AS A FACTOR OF TEENAGE CHILDREN’S PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH

The term “self-attitude” is founded. It lies in the basis of self-estimation formation, reflection, level of aspiration and it is defined by such notions as self-respect, auto-sympathy. The analysis of scientific literature and professional activity experience let reveal the counteractions in the necessity of teenage child’s negative orientation on himself, on his own forces and possibilities in the position of self-sufficient, significant personality that the society needs and the lack of the developed constructive strategies in educational practice of school. Self-attitude is considered as teenage children’s quality of personality based on complex of orientations on himself which provide psychological development of the personality. As a hypothesis of the research the proposition was made that the most important determinant of psychological health is self-attitude of personality, which regulates the activity and the behavior of the teenage child and his development will be successful under specially-organized psychological conditions. According to the tasks of research were used such general-psychological methods as viewing, talk, experiment. To study the peculiarities of self-attitude of teenagers was used the complex of complementary psycho-diagnostic methods: methods of self-attitude research (MSAR) of S.R. Pantileev, methods of self-estimation with the help of procedure of arranging; methods of T.W. Dembo - S.Y. Rubenstein and others. The conditions of self-attitude development as a factor of psychological health of teenage children are considered, the criteria of psychological health are revealed; the connection of indices of self-attitude and psychological well-being are revealed.

psychological health determinants, self-attitude, psychological health, subjective well-being, teenager