Posats'kyi O. Psychological Features of the image of one's own future in early youth..

The research deals with the psycho-pedagogical analysis of the problem of planning one's own future in early youth. It is revealed, that the modern senior pupils' image of future essentially differs from one of the senior pupils, who lived in conditions of the socialist system. It is established, that the future is realized by senior pupils as the most acute problem. The emotional attitude to the future is a background necessary for the normal planning of future, that is for carrying out active - adaptive function. Time prospect and content fulfillment of the image of future in senior pupils are found out. Similar and different features of the image of future in city senior pupils and town senior pupils, as well as the difference in the image of future in male and female are defined. Both city and town senior pupils estimate a modern social situation rather as stable, than as unstable, whereas city senior pupils consider the life tempo as quick, while town senior pupils as average. The relation betweenthe worry for future and personal features of senior pupils is shown: the ego-concept, self-estimation, level of uneasiness.