Babadzhanova A. Sociocultural and individual peculiarities of development of sense of humor of senior pupils

The thesis is devoted to the research of sociocultural and individual peculiarities of development of sense of humor of senior pupils. The essence of notion of "sense of humor" has been revealed and author's determination has been offered. Structured and system analysis of factors of development of sence of humor as emotional experience of activity has been carried out. The empiric research of social and individual specification of development of sense of humour has been done. It has been proved that sociocultural peculiarity of development of sense of humour of senior pupils speculates to the fact that influence of social surrounding (as bearer of socicultural content) is not principal factor in genesis of sense of humour. The level of development of sense of humor is substantially connected with individual peculiarities of respondents namely with their value orientations. Based on the analysis of empirical resuts psychological and pedagogical principles of development of sense of humor of senior pupils have been developed and the model including cognitive and perceptive, necessity and motivational, value and notional components has been designed. The program and social and psychological training of development of sense of humour of senior pupils has been offered. Methodical instruments elaborated on the basis of cognitive and style approach are connected with principle that flexibility of cogitation is considered as cognitive mechanism of frustration toleration and as recourse of reconsideration of focal object "communication" increasing its value. Communication is considered as behavioral form of frustration toleration. Psychological and pedagogical model of development of sense of humor of senior pupils has been verified by forming experiment. The effectiveness of the program and social-psychological training have been proved.