The article describes the results of the research of student’s level of personal autonomy and responsibility. The author substantiates the relevance of these characteristics investigation. It is stated that the development of personal autonomy and responsibility is significant for the development of a mature, socially and psychologically adapted personality. In the research the connections between social and psychological adaptation and the characteristics of students’ personal responsibility and autonomy were followed. A deeper understanding of the structure and connections between these characteristics can serve as a basis for creating the program of students’ personal autonomy and responsibility development.

This article analyzes the current situation in the studies of loss and grief in the domestic and foreign psychology. From the point of view of the author’s concept of the meaning-activity-based approach to personal transformation the confrontation between the two leading trends in the approach to loss - the classical one (“exemption from attachment”) and modern one (“continued bonds”) is revealed. The article postulates the need to go beyond numerous interpretations: clinical, cognitive, economic and energy ones. It is proposed to consider the situation of loss in terms of cultural and historical work of a personality. There presented the results of the experiment on comparing the effectiveness of models focused on confrontation with negative experiences (classical theory) and one-sided fixation on the positive experience.

This article is dedicated to the analysis of the results of mental correctional program realization the aim of which is to change teenagers’ ideas about consequences of drug abuse. In the study it has been discovered that modern teenagers’ ideas lack knowledge about drug harms and the way they affect people’s health, as a result they demonstrate obvious desire to taste drugs. The program of mental correction aimed at changing teenagers’ ideas about consequences of drug abuse helped to increase their level of knowledge about the problem, its consequences and to decrease the desire to taste drugs.

Religiousness as a system of collective ideas about world structure bore an adaptive function since its origin and gave a sense of predetermination from above. To what extent does religious consciousness help or prevent from adapting in modern society? How does religiousness influence modern young men’s character and identity: to what extent are these influences constructive or destructive? On the basis of vast experimental material and on the example of Christianity the author gives answers to these questions.

The article is devoted to the description of the mechanism of social influence on the formation of psychosomatically significant reactive patterns of a person. The authors consider a person’s vertical position in social interaction as one of social factors that determine the type of psychosomatic risk. This paper proposes a technique of studying the vertical position of a person in order to predict further specific psychosomatic risks. The authors come to the conclusion that it is possible to introduce social factors into the field of research, which studies the problem of psychosomatic diseases formation.

The paper presents a theoretical basis of the problem of interrelation between a subject’s attitude to his inevitable and unpredictable end (automortality) and his ability to make his life conscious. It is shown that in psychology this problem is not studied enough, both in its theoretical and empirical aspects. The problem of automortality is considered in the context of a subject’s cognitive functional, the importance of this problem for human subjectivity is shown. A new method for the study of meaning-life values of a subject is proposed. Empirical data on the sensitivity of this method to the study of content aspects of the meaning of life. It is shown that cognitive values contribute mostly to young people’s (14-22 years) understanding of life.

The article is dedicated to psycho-pedagogical support for professional self-determination of gifted high school students in the educational area of a school. Basic concepts of the subject of research are considered, its pedagogical and psychological aspects are defined. The author’s model of psycho-pedagogical support which includes facilities, methods, organization and variations of approach of psycho-pedagogical support are given.

The article describes problems, challenges and prospects of differential psychology analysis of the meaning of life. The author explicates the basic parameter for describing differences in the meaning of life which appears as bipolar continuum «meaningfulness - meaning of life crisis». Various ways of improvement for this parameter to make differentiation of people more exact and multivariate are discussed. Differential properties of the meaning of life that can serve as a psychic phenomenon which can become sub-parameters of individual and group differences are defined.

The study is aimed at solving the most important problem of modern psychology -theoretical and empirical grounding of reflexive-resource determination of a teacher’s personal and professional development. It is shown that resource grounds for psychological solutions of intrapersonal contradictions should be sought in an individual’s ability to reflex, to form senses and to converse. Experimentally the author allocated 4 types of a reflexive resource: dialogical-meaningful, regulatory-meaningful, regulatory-stereotypical and protective.

The article deals with possibility of realization a scientific and educational project as a method of forming young peoples’ orientations important for life. Young peoples’ need for making their life conscious ensures actuality of the article. The author describes the structure of sessions: theoretical part, practical part and an individual project. Logo-art therapeutic exercises are described which stimulate adolescents’ self-reflection development.