THE FORMATION OF PRACTICAL COMPONENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CULTURE OF ADOLESCENTS

In the present context of education modernization, the activity on psychologization of the school education and bringing-up process and the improvement of the psychological culture of its actors is the important aspect of work of educational institutions and psychological services. School should create the conditions for the personality development of a child who can solve successfully various task of everyday life. However, the content of modern secondary education is developed not enough according to the needs of the society and a person in the sphere of psychological culture.  Psychological culture being a multivariate, system, integral personal formation is represented by three interrelated components (intellectual, axiological and practical) that together allow reflecting the peculiarities of interaction and relations of a person with himself, other people and the environment in the whole. High level of its development allows solving more properly the tasks of self-identification, self-development, self-regulation, and social adaptation. It is required to approach its formation in an integrated manner. 

The paper presents various approaches to the definition of the psychological culture of a person, its structure, and reveals the content of its components. The authors prove the necessity of formation of the practical component of the psychological culture of the adolescents on the example of their communicative competence, present and analyze the results of experimental work. 

The material of the paper extends the existing in psychological and pedagogical sciences understandings about the psychological culture of adolescents and the possibilities of its formation. The suggested materials can be used while following-up the adolescent person development within the educational process and the psychology training in the school.