RELATION BETWEEN SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND ORGANIZATION OF FREE TIME IN ADOLESCENTS

The article reports the results of the authors' psycho-pedagogical study of the relationship between teenagers' self-actualization and their way of free time organization. Data for this study was collected through РOI / Personal Orientation Inventory by Everett Shostrom and author's questionnaire on free time. Study had two major research objectives. Firstly, to analyze the pedagogical and psychological research on personal time management, and mainly, to find the relationship between adolescents' self-actualization and their organization of free time in the regions of Russia. The results demonstrate the presence of correlation between autonomy scales, time ratio, flexibility in communication and selfunderstanding, and the desire to communicate as a way of spending free time, with the existence of the regional peculiarities.