SPECIAL BEHAVIOUR FEATURES OF PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN’S PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS DEPENDING ON SOCIOMETRIC STATUS IN A CLASS

Abstract

The paper deals with the research of primary schoolchildren’s behavior in the aspect of moral characteristics expression depending on sociometrical status in a class considering scientific approaches to researched issue. Within the experiment the author verified a hypothesis concerning with a probable influence of defined grouping alternant (sociometric status in a class) on the expressiveness level of integral personal factors of primary schoolchildren including the factors of moral and values-based attitude and values-based attitude to the affairs, duties and other people. Mentioned factors reach the highest average indicators in the category of primary schoolchildren with high sociometric status in the class (“stars”), demonstrating the top of the lowest average indicators in the category of researched ones with low sociometric status in the
161 class (“isolated”). The study covers that the indicators of all psychological scales linearly increases from the researched category with those who have the lowest sociometric status in the class to the researched category of ones who are with the highest sociometric status. These psychological scales denote special features for data dealing with integral personal factors in the structural and informative ways. The author highlights that these results reveal the focusing on moral and ethical values in a behavior for those who are with the highest sociometric status in the class. In a system of relations with coevals a child develops the whole range of feelings that characterize his or her as an already socialized person who aims to self-affirmation and competition with others obtaining certain status in a group. Primary schoolchildren with sociometric statuses of “stars” and “wished” are more responsible apart from those who have sociometric statuses of “isolated” and “rejected”. The author presents the own interpretation of high position in a team among coevals. This position concerns with the values of primary schoolchildren’s internal potential and developed external culture of behavior.