There are many structural models of sport motivation of professional athletes in the Russian-speaking scientific literature, though functional models of sports activity regulation are not presented, as well as the models, suitable for measuring sport motivation of non-professionals. Such a model and a corresponding questionnaire were developed by Canadian researchers in 1995 (Sport motivation scale, Vallerand et al.) and adapted by Russian psychologists in 2012 (Kvitchasty et al., 2012). The authors carried out initial adaptation of the revised version of the questionnaire (SMS-6, 2002) on a sample of non-professionals in sports and fitness. The obtained results do not fully correspond to any of these functional models, further adaptation is required.

This article examines the stages of validation and standardization of the author's Questionnaire "Analysis of Family Myth". Information about the stages of development of the questionnaire and the clustering of individual family myths is presented in the article. It is proved that the scales internally uniformed, the questions are discriminative and the questionnaire is reliable on a representative sample (n=183). The questionnaire could be used in the diagnostics of a family and in a family psychotherapy.

Suicide is a major problem among transitional-aged youth, yet little is known about how this phenomenon impacts youth with disabilities. This exploratory study sought to glean information about the prevalence of suicidality (i.e. self-reported suicidal thought, plan or attempt) amongst transitional-aged people aged 18-24 years old with a range of disabilities and a comparison group of youth without disabilities. This quasi-experimental study drew on secondary data from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Study - a nationally representative study on matters relevant to behavioral health. Findings suggest that transitional-aged people with disabilities are almost four times more likely to report past year suicidal ideation, nine times more likely to report suicide plan-making and almost eleven times more likely to report suicide attempts (p<.001). This study extends specific knowledge across a population-base for young adults aged 18-24. Further, while this study also adds to the evidence base supporting the presence of this social problem in this population.

The article is dedicated to the main stages of development of bibliotherapy in relation to the experience of European English-speaking countries and the United States. Data from numerous studies of foreign colleagues, not covered in the literature until now, can be particularly useful in connection with the growing interest in the method in Russia. The benefits of bibliotherapy, such as low cost treatments, the possibility of distance therapy without loss of effectiveness, and a wide range of solved problems, makes the method perspective for further development.

The article deals with the main results of the empirical study on the psychological characteristics of the 7 -8 year-old children with aggressive behavior. As a result of the analysis of the data it has been stated that social adaptation of children with aggressive behavior has different levels. It is determined that more aggressive children are characterized by greater emotional instability than those with low levels of aggression. A number of social and psychological differences (different treatment of subjects significant for adults, as well as in communication with peers, and curiosity) is determined.

The article presents the results of an experimental study of the problem of parental attitudes towards preschool-age children with an autism spectrum disorder (hereafter ASD). The parent-child relationship is regarded as a set of structural components: requirement of motivational, value-semantic, emotional, evaluative and behavioral. The study showed that parents of preschool children with ASD are characterized by a sense of self-sacrifice in a family situation, the suppression of the will of the child; expressed a sense of guilt toward the family; high level of family anxiety; strong custody, lack of requirements, responsibilities to the child, the minimality of sanctions in relation to the child with ASD; the high level of symbiotic relationship and a symbiotic relationship between parent and child, expressed a positive attitude towards your child, the low level of control over the actions of the child from the parents.

The article scrutinizes the questions of psychological-pedagogical work with teenagers and young men. The presented materials show new possibilities for the study of life-meaningful orientations by the method of logoart therapy. The research involving the study of life issues is often based only on quantitative methods. The logoаrt-therapeutic techniques offered by the author help explore tumors of the adolescent and youth period to a greater extent, among them - ideas about the meaning of life, deep reflection, willingness to build life plans.

The needs of modern education in comprehensive and complex scientific knowledge about the modern child put on the agenda for the necessity to update the interrelation of different sciences. The dual disciplinary affiliation of educational psychology is able to provide a priority for it in the elaborating of the interdisciplinary understanding of core categories and concepts, such as: "person", "upbringing", "educating", "development", and the implementation of new practices on this basis, including multi-dimensional, holistic and coordinated work of different specialists with a child in modern education and the system of assistance to families. The article presents the results of the historical reconstruction of the history of Russian educational psychology in pre-revolutionary period as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge, the development of which was set up by the interaction between psychology and pedagogy. The historical past allows the educators to use its potential to solve fundamental and applied problems at the intersection of scientific disciplines in modern social-cultural conditions, which is the aim of this article.

The aim of this study is to analyze the psychological characteristics of the district police officers in the context of their health-creating behavior development. The results indicate that the district police officers from the group with adaptive level of health-creating activities (unlike those from the group with deviant behavior) have life purposes in the future, which give meaning to their lives, as well as life-orientability and time perspective. They perceive the process of their lives as interesting, emotionally rich and full of meaning. , Besides, they estimate the segment of life they have lived as a productive one. They present themselves as strong personalities with sufficient freedom of choice to build their lives in accordance with their objectives, goals, and meaning.

The article is devoted to the use of emotional self-regulation at the lessons of psychology. The characteristics of first-year students’ emotional state, such as: anxiety, frustration, aggression, rigidity, are discussed. The most stressful situations for students are analyzed; as well as the ways of coping behavior used by the students. The methods of art therapy that can be used to optimize the mental state of students are justified.