Osyka O. Psychological peculiarities of moral behavior motivation in primary school students.

The thesis focuses on the problem of moral behavior motivation in primary school students. The essence and characteristics of the moral behavior were elucidated, its models and structure examined; different approaches to exploration of the school students' moral behavior motivation were analyzed. The major types of motivation for primary school students' behavior were elicited, such as durable altruistic motives, intermittent altruistic motives, intermittent egoistic motives, durable egoistic motives, and vague motives. Discovered was the correlation between the primary school students' moral behavior, their personal traits, and a series of social factors. Psychological means that contribute to the development of altruistic motivation in primary school students' behavior were defined. The proposed programme aimed at altruistic motivation development enables us to form the child's conscious attitude towards moral standards and to decrease significantly the number of immoral actions in his/her behavior.