Olga  Podzhynska
graduate student of the Institute of Psychology G.S. Kostiuk,Ukraine
Laboratory methodology and theory of psychology

 

Values  is a part of personal identity Youth

Values ​​are essential elements of the internal structure of personality. They embodied life experience of the individual and separating meaningful, significant for a given individual from insignificant, unimportant. What we consider important or right, good or worthy, influence on  all our lives, generate our attitudes towards people and events and determines what the people we become.

Awareness of their place in the future, their life prospects are central neoplasm mental and personal development in young age.

Early adolescence  is an actual period of identity formation when exercise personal self-determination is a prerequisite to further the harmonious development of personality. Identity is formed in interaction with other people and activities on the basis of identification with the values that exist in society. Coordinated system of value orientations of the individual self identifies priorities and life plans, and promote the establishment of adequate identity [6, p.94].

During early adolescence fundamentally changing attitude toward self. Due to changes taking place in today's society, young people have a wide range of ideological, social and professional opportunities. Before psychological science facing new questions about what exactly fills the inner world of the modern young man is formed her personality. It is important to understand what psychological mechanisms contribute to the formation of active young man who develops a unique personality, can verify and affirm your ability to achieve control over life's circumstances, be active, productive and happy.

Identity treated us like to keep and maintain the individual's own integrity, identity, continuity of the history of his life and stable image of the "I" consciousness in itself certain personality traits, individual typological characteristics, traits, behaviors, recognized her, true. Meanwhile identity − rather a dynamic system that can change and evolve.

First in social and psychological terms problematic identity was developed by J. Meade and Charles Cooley. They viewed identity as a condition for social interactions. D. Feldstein identity formation linked with successful socialization and individualization personality. E. Erickson considered one of the first notion of "identity" as an independent scientific category, highlighted circle of major problems. Erich Fromm saw the formation of identity by meeting the needs of the individual in the experience of their own uniqueness [1; 5].

E. Erickson used the term "identity" to explore and explain many social phenomena, to study the psychological preconditions of cultural and historical change. The structure of individual identity E. Erickson distinguishes between personal identity and self-identity. This reflects the fact that a person remains in constant, recognizable despite its changes and development, the second means a narrow, deep region, responsible for the unity and integrity of the individual. "I" is changing but always remain its components that preserve previous quality. "I" assimilates various influences that change it, but the core of "self-identity" remains constant [1; 5; 6].

Canadian psychologist James Marcia identified four stages of the identity of the young man, determined largely professional, religious and personal identity.

1. At the stage of "uncertain" (fuzzy) individual identity has not yet developed clear convictions, not chosen profession and not faced with a crisis of identity.

2. "Early" (premature) identity occurs when an individual involved in an appropriate system of relations, but it did not own and carefully, and based on the opinions of others or following the authoritative example.

3. Stage "moratorium" is characterized by the crisis of self-determination when the individual chooses from one of the numerous options that can only be considered his.

4. On stage "reached" mature identity crisis successfully completed and a young man from finding themselves turned to practical self [5, c.123-132].

This sequence of steps is fairly conventional, as a young man of uncertain identity may come to the stage of the moratorium and then reach a mature identity, but can also remain permanently at the blurred identity or to take the path of early identity, abandoning active choice and self-determination.

Modern social crisis, which is a manifestation of the erosion of values (E. Erickson, J. Marcia, A. Waterman) negative impact on the image of the world and those values, which are formed in adolescence. This is due to the reduction of the role of tradition, the loss of faith in the future, the crisis of individual identity. Lack of effective values and norms of their unpredictability and strange behavior lead to a weakening of mental and social health. It is important to understand what psychological mechanisms contribute to the formation of active young man who develops a unique personality, can verify and affirm your ability to achieve control over life's circumstances, be active, productive and happy.

The system determines the value orientations semantic orientation of the personality and its relation to the world, to others, to itself, it is the core motivation of vitality, a life concept and the "philosophy of life." Coordinated system of value orientations of the individual self identifies priorities and life plans, and promote the establishment of adequate identity.

Issues relating to the disclosure of the problem of forming values ​​in adolescence, study and analyzed in N. Bondar, A.A. Kozlov, IG Popov, Z.V.Sikevych, E. Volkova, I Dubrovin, DO Leontiev, A. Zotov, L. Frost, V. Pavlenko, V. Pichurina, V. Lisowski, A. Mordovec. The process of assimilation values ​​of life and their transformation into meaningful elements of value is the psychological basis of representations forming the values  of the individual young person. Peculiarities of this process conventionally presented in the form of three interrelated steps:

- In the first stage, the reassessment of values ​​and ideals that guided the personality for it. And because our own experience of life is an important source of values;

- The second phase of the assimilation of values ​​is not only through the formation of integrated functional units of empirical concepts, but also communication - through the media and propaganda;

- A prerequisite, the basis of the third stage is the activity, expressed in domestic personal respects to the objective conditions of his butya [8].

Problems value orientations adolescence affects N. Bondar in the study of the formation of personal representation of life.

She believes that adolescence is a time of life, social role, professional, personal, moral self-determination and individualization (awareness of their own uniqueness.)

Youth needs of the individual knowledge of their own capabilities and prospects. This requirement is met when developing their own worldview, Purport and value choices, shaping life plans and programs. That adolescence is sencytyvnym for education value orientation as a stable element of life perspective [10].

The main characteristics of value orientations is their content and degree of formation of hierarchical structures. In turn, values ​​and value orientations are considered mostly as hierarchical structures that govern human behavior. They are essential elements of the internal structure of individual and restrict meaningful, significant from insignificant and unimportant. The set formed, stable value orientations forms a kind of system of personal coordinates and ensures the stability of a certain type of behavior and activity, expressed in focus the needs and interests of man. Because this value orientation as the most important factor that regulates and determines human behavior [8; 9]

New intellectual ability and the experience make it possible to form individual system of values, defining priorities and self-selection of real ways to achieve the goal. Based on the values ​​of self-determination person has professional choice, has the ability to think, plan, organize their lives.

According V.Shterna a decisive role in shaping the personality plays the value which a person believes the highest, decisive.

Formation of individual values ​​can be represented as a process of internalization individual social values ​​[10]. Researchers singled out three vzayemoperehidni forms of existence values: social ideals, objective embodiment of these ideals in the acts or achievements of specific people and motivational personality structure that encouraged her to detailed implementation of social ideals in their behavior and activity [8].

Throughout life the same values ​​supported by other discarded or modified - formed individual structure of values, which is not like any other. Clash of the individual with new value systems and conflict between real life and have learned values ​​often lead to the formation of a "multi-layered" value systems in which the values ​​that are declared largely disagree with valid [9].

Values ​​are not always understood the individual, with their regulatory impact remains. People may not realize how its values ​​correlate with reality, but the acting force value attitude of not lost.

The structure of values ​​and their meaning may vary with age depending on the factors that influence the formation of values ​​of. As noted V.Diltey at the level of the individual values ​​vary with age, increasing the level of consciousness, becoming more conscious choice of values. Changes in the system of values ​​possible under the influence of the vital transformations in human destiny, sometimes with irreversible consequences.

Values ​​are the core, the basis of personality, which provides the integrity of individual development, personal self-identity and serves as a guide of life, the moral basis for the choice of activities and subordination purposes. Modern information society offers many diverse, often opposite choices and behaviors, including the young person must make a choice. In this selection of personal identity is recognized and specified.

 

 

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