Motivation and Development of Senior Pupil's Personality

Motivation system in senior adolescent and youth age (students of the 9th and 11th forms) was studied on the basis of a complex approach and a comparative analysis of emotional attitude and a deliberate preference of values (those general and educational). It was shown, that the significance and accessibility of analyzed groups of values to a considerable extent are determined by a dominant motivation. Besides, a tendency was found out of contraposition of a conscious and emotional attitude to values, – the values, which are highly attractive in the motivation-and-emotional plane, on the level of conscience are underestimated, as compared with other ones. This determines also the further trend of development of a personality in the direction of acceptance of socially approved general and educational values, leads to convergence of personality development of schoolchildren at that stage of their life. Besides, there were also revealed some gender features of value orientations, related to the outstripping development of girls, as compared to boys of the same age.