Rud' G. Formation of the life outlook in early youth.

The dissertation deals with specific features of the process of the life outlook forming at the young age. Elicited were the basic social and psychological factors affecting the way of self-determination and governing the appropriate choice of the individual's life outlook in early years. These are the experience of effective communication; social success, achievements, and acknowledgement; the practice of making independent life-determining decisions; the experience of the social status increase; and professional self-determination. The individual psychological features were described that underlie the objective and integral perception of the life course and result in the best choice of the life outlook an individual makes in the early youth. Such features include the internality, sense of reality, strategic thinking, creative abilities, intellectual flexibility, conflict-freeness, emotional stability, communicability, and sociability. The domains where the results of the research can be used were educed. Elucidation of social and individual psychological factors determining the life outlook formation at the young age can facilitate the improvements in the career-guidance and psycho-correction and consultancy of the youth population. The principal outcomes of the research were published in 5 articles.