THE INFLUENCE OF COGNITIVE FACTORS ON FORMING ABILITY OF STUDENTS TO INDEPENDENT LIFE CHOICES

The article focuses on the elements of the capacity for independent life choices, namely, the cognitive component researched and proven its close relationship to the ability of independent life choices students. In psychological science problem of studying the ability of independent life choices presented as a study of the essence exercise life choices, his psychological characteristics, structural components, etc., and almost did not disclose the possibility of forming lifelong personality, particularly in the student's age. In this paper we examine how the individual's capacity for independent life choices may form through a set of social and psychological factors affecting its timely appearance and intensive development. Research autonomy as personal quality in our psychology becomes today relevance due to the social situation of instability, complexity reduction and economic life of citizens must show determination, initiative, courage, independence in terms of complex life choices. The high demand for independence as the study due to turning the theoretical and methodological orientations modern national personality psychology toward the subject. We believe that the ability to life choices - is the ability of the individual to identify and clearly understand the alternatives critical situations quickly evaluate them on their own criteria, risks, exercise creativity, experiment and create your own life-world.