ASSISTANCE TO ANOTHER AS A PROSOCIAL PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Abstract

The article determines that the choice of the type of personality behavior depends on personal and social factors. Prosocial behavior is characterized as behavior that is intended to help the benefit of social communities and involves the benefit of helping people, which distinguishes it from altruistic behavior. The forms of prosocial behavior are given. A wide variety of forms (types) of prosocial behavior include assistance, altruism, cooperation, compassion, condescension, non-aggressive attitude, sharing of one's own good, gift, empathy, generosity, interest in others, diligence, caring and and activities aimed at improving the common good reduction of social injustice in relation to another. Classifications of types of assistance according to different parameters (by E. Ilyin) are described. It can be individual and group, short-term (one-time) and long-term, and in content - material, physical, intellectual and moral. It has been concluded that helping others involves subject-subjective interaction and is aimed at improving the moral, material, physical, and intellectual position of the person in need of assistance. It has been researched that helping others implies a certain level of motivation and a set of motives and needs that need to be met by the helping person. That is, assisting the other, given the traditional treatment of assistance, implies a bilateral benefit from the assistance. Assistance to another has the status of a self-development tool for the assisting person in various fields, depending on the motives of his activity. The prospect of further research in this area is the selection and justification of the psychodiagnostic toolkit of the strategy of prosocial behavior "Helping others" adolescents in inclusive learning.