METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF PSYCHOLOGO-PEDAGOGICAL STUDY ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND ORIENTATIONS FOR THE LIFE SENSE SEARCHING FOR FUTURE TEACHERS OF PSYCHOLOGY

In post-industrial society the paradigm of education has changed towards the personal orientation and humanization. The turning of the higher education in Russia to the two-level system has emphasized the understanding of importance of education got by personality means of self-realization in life and making a personal career. The psychologo-pedagogical study of the correlation between individual peculiarities, sex differences and self-consciousness at student's age is actual due to the necessity in the process of professional training to take into account some reorientations of consciousness from the space of personal experiences and self-cognition in the system of interrelations to the search and identification of one's place in life, self-determination as a member of society. The Proposed methodology of the study includes: a) the methodological base- of the theory of the action, personality-oriented and value-oriented approaches, the concept of personality-professional development of students, the theory of the tendency to sense and logoterapy of V.FRANKL, the theory of the interpersonal relations; b) the stages of the study- preliminary, certifying, comparative, interpretational, practice-oriented; c) the methods of the study- observation, interview, testing, statistical processing of results, qualitative analysis of experimental data; d) the methodic of the study- modified by us "Test orientations for the life sense searching (OLSS)", the questionnaire of social-psychological adaptation (SPA). Methodological approaches applied in this study have the practical meaning for foregrounding and predictive of personal of social adaptation and for the realization of the principles of individual approach to the professional progress of future teachers of Psychology.