Young students’ psychological readiness for active self-realization: methodological tools

Aim. Verification of the “Self-realization Research Questionnaire” developed by M. R. Ginsburg (M. R. Ginsburg, 1996) as a psychodiagnostic method for determining young students’ readiness for active self-determination and self-realization.

Methodology. “Questionnaire of self-realization research” (M. R. Ginsburg, 1996), aimed at identifying the creative and reproductive attitudes of young men and women; “Questionnaire of professional attitudes of teenagers” (I. M. Kondakov, 1989); Questionnaire “Emotional attitude to the future” (M. R. Ginsburg, 1996). The study involved high school students (grades 10-11) and first-year college students aged 16-18, in all of 412 (176 boys and 236 girls). Statistical analysis of the data was carried out using exploratory factor analysis, α-Cronbach's internal consistency coefficient, and Spearman's rank correlation coefficients. The received materials were processed using the statistical package SPSS 23.0.

Results. It is shown that the “Self-realization Research Questionnaire” developed by M. R. Ginzburg actually reveals not the levels of creative or reproductive attitude to self-realization, but the measure of the activity-passivity of the subject in the context of self-determination. The questionnaire modified by us in terms of processing and interpreting the results of the study can become a full-fledged psychodiagnostic tool in the work of practical psychologists on the professional self-determination of early adolescence students in the post-industrial economy. Considering the subject's own activity as an important condition for successful self-realization, we called the technique "Questionnaire of activity in self-realization".

Research implications. The practical significance is determined by the demand of modern society for updating and creating modern tools for studying the readiness for professional and life self-determination of students of early adolescence in the post-industrial economy.

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