Object: moral feelings of the person.Subject: formation of the moral feelings of the person in dramatic situations To answer the stated tasks the following complex of methods was used: theiratical: analysis, synthesis, summarizing, classification and systematization of the researches concerning the issues of moral feelings and the influence of the dramatic situations on the person; empirical: psychodiagnostic testing, establishing and formational stages of the empirical investigation with the usage of the complex of methods - method "Value orientations" (M. Rokich); questionnaire "The level of moral and ethics responsibility" (I.H. Tymoschuk); method "The evaluation of the level of moral consciousness" (L. Kolberg); the scale of self-appraisal of moral feelings (in the author's modification); the scale of self-appraisal of moral qualities (in the author's modification). For qualitative and quantitative analyses of the obtained data the arithmetic mean method, median method, sigh test, the criteria of Mac-Nemar, the criteria of Mann-Vitni, the criteria of Kolmohorova-Smirnova, the criteria of Kramer, cluster analysis, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, multidimensional deployment, principal component analysis.Scientific novelty lies in the following: scientific ideas about the essence and specifics of moral feelings are widened;dramatic situation as the reason that influences the formation and deepening of moral feelings of person is pointed; methodic apparatus to investigate the influence of the dramatic situation in art upon the emotional and sensitive spheres of personality is created;connection between moral feelings and the level of moral consciousness is determined, the participation of the moral and ethic responsibilities and values orientations in the process of the deepening of moral feelings is stated; it is stated that observation, perception and evaluation of the dramatic situations arise moral feelings;the essence of dramatic situations which partially deep moral feelings and assimilate with personal experience and as the result create the image of dramatic is explained;mechanism of functioning of moral feelings in dramatic situations is determined, the elements of experience which initiate the actualization of moral feelings that framed phenomenological field of moral and immoral are empirically stated;it is proved that emotional experience in dramatic situations contributes to the formation and deepening of moral feelings and finally becomes the regulator of the person's behavior. Practical value of the achieved results lies in the following: the developing and testing of the psychological complex aimed at the identification of the moral feelings; implementation of the theoretical and practical results of the empirical research into the educational process of the higher educational establishments by means of improving and integrating the contents of psychological disciplines "General psychology", "Practical psychology", "Psycho diagnostics", "Practice in group psycho correction", "Psychology of personal development", "Practice in psychological special courses"; the programs of psycho correction classes aimed at the development of moral feelings of the youth in Kherson town centre of social services for family, children and youth are implemented. The results of the research work are applied in the educational process at Kherson state university (reference №01-22/730 of 18.03.2013), Sumy state pedagogical university named after A.S. Makarenka (reference №539 of 03.04.2013) and the work of Kherson town centre of social services for family, children and youth (reference №1-24/580 of 08.04.2013).Achieved results give to the specialists that work on the problems of the moral development of personality the possibility to advance educational programs and forms of work. Scope institutions of higher education, psychological services.
