Bogucharova Y. Psychology of attitude to health: paradigms, models, developmental factors.

Тhe thеsis is devoted to the problem of attitude to health in adolescents and youth as an integral part of the development of their subject. Within a subject paradigm and based on subject-activity and system's principles a new approach to understending and investigating of attitude to health is worked out, which includes theoretical categories describing attitude to health and methodological principles for researching it, authorial model of mechanisms of attitude to health as an open-developing integral self-determination subjectivе system, model of psychological assistance in optimization of the subject personality's attitude to health in adolescents and youth. Тhe resalts of the theoretical and empirical study of subjectivity's prossecial and attributive indexes, depending on reinforced development of system inner regulative factors and personal characteristics have been obtained and also cluster analysis was used to find out the empirical typology of attitude to health in adolescents and youth.. It has been shown that a subjectivity as forming of personality self-determination mechanisms and as necessary component of personality life's health caring substantially strengthens efficiency self-regulation, reduces a disturbance and anxiety, influences of psychological defences and promotes psychological prosperity, productive coping, different kinds of social support.