PERSONEL FACTOR STRUCTURE OF JUNIOR SCHOOLCHILD

Abstract

The study deals with the model defining of junior schoolchild personal characteristics. It has been singled out such model components as integral (latent) personal factors that determine content character and specific features of junior schoolchild ideas if their behavior is in accordance with behavior norms. Herewith the author pays attention to the certain system formation of schoolchild’s mental knowledge as a basic element of mental consciousness and self-consciousness and the person’s important structure aspect. It has been analyzed the mentioned issue and concluded that the essential precondition of child’s personality becoming is the development of mental characteristics, feelings, and gaining of mental behavior experience. The author argues that junior schoolchild may not have control over full mental behavior with inner mental self-determination yet, they may only get control over its forms. That is why Empirical research of junior schoolchild behavior accordance with norms and personal integral factors defining makes it possible to widen knowledge about personal structure formation origin, single out its specific features and mechanisms of the development. As the result of factor analysis it has been singled out the factor model of junior schoolchild personal characteristics. The author includes six integral factors into given model structure. There are mental and valuable relations, personal self-assertion, valuable relations to the affairs, duties, and other people, emotional and valuable direction, personal self-control, open-mindedness to the world. Researched common factors gave a possibility to suggest that specific peculiarities of revealed junior schoolchild's integral personal factors might be presented as personal development predictors of their social and psychological competence in the sphere of the own behavior accordance with norms.