STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC MODEL OF SPIRITUAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND FEATURES OF ITS DEVELOPMENT AT YOUNG AGE

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STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC MODEL OF SPIRITUAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND FEATURES OF ITS DEVELOPMENT AT YOUNG AGE

Journal Title: Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 1

Abstract

Spiritual self-consciousness is an integral holistic systemic-structural phenomenon, characterized by the certain development level and worldview orientation towards informative and cognitive, emotional and sensual, behavioral and activity motivational and volitional components, represented by the physical, psychic and socio-cultural self-consciousness and is expressed in personal, individual and group forms of self-consciousness. Spirituality of young personality is determined by the development level of its spiritual self-consciousness. Genesis of spiritual self-consciousness is a multidimensional reality that unites individual physical, mental and sociocultural life of the person; is a development process of youth’s ability to integrated understanding of various aspects of his/her own "Self", self-awareness and personal development as existential and responsible subject of life activity. Integration process of all personality structures most intensively takes place at the stage of youth, because this age is sensitive to the actualization of spiritual self-consciousness. The ability of the individual to become self-aware, one occurs under the conditions when the contents of teaching and educational process are adequate to the age and capabilities of the individual and take into account available area of actual and potential basic components development of the self-consciousness and integration in the development of spiritual self-consciousness. Effective means for the developing ability of self-awareness is the best use of the advantages and opportunities of the leading activity and orientation at the age in the process of correlation levels of development and configuration features (harmonic, disharmonious, balanced) components of self-consciousness in young age. Genesis of spiritual self-consciousness of a person is determined by the peculiarities of the main types of self-consciousness (physical, psychic, social and cultural) and correlation levels (individual-personal, personal-individual, individual-subject, subject-transcendent) with defined configuration (harmonic, disharmonious, balanced) of its basic components: informative and cognitive, emotional and sensual, behavioural and activity motivational and volitional. Motivational and volitional component combines the activates, directs and coordinates the action of other components, the development of spiritual self-consciousness at young age based on the following new formation: world view, personal identity and "Self-concept" personality and through the mechanisms of empathy, reflection, identification decentration, self-understanding, self-attitude, self-acceptance feedback and self-volitional decision that promotes the integration of Real Self and Ideal Self and provides integrative formation of the Spiritual Self. "Spiritual Self" is defined as an integrated and hierarchically highest form of psychical reflection, representing the level of the spiritual self-consciousness in young age.

Authors and Affiliations

Stavytska, S

Keywords

ability of self-awareness multidimensional reality spiritual self-consciousness

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