DIAGNOSTICS OF ETHNIC-SIGN COMPETENCE OF ADOLESCENTS IN THE PERCEPTION OF FRAGMENTS OF UKRAINIAN TRADITIONAL ORNAMENT

The article is devoted to the diagnostics of the ethnic-sign competence of adolescents for the knowledge of fragments of Ukrainian traditional ornament in the framework of the scientific research "Psychological peculiarities of the formation of ethnic consciousness in adolescence by means of Ukrainian folk embroidery". The purpose of this diagnosis was to determine the awareness of adolescents for signs of folk ornaments. For this purpose, we used the technique "Graphems", the main task of which was to determine the key symbolic basis of the perception of Ukrainian folk embroidery by the various groups studied. The method also allows to evaluate the level of "symbolic" erudition, the level of attentiveness to works and products of folk art. The presented materials contain the results of the diagnosis of groups of adolescents involved in the future to embroidery profession (PTNZ-R and PTNZ-K groups) and not-involved to this occupation (students of Boris Grinchenko Kiev University, whom we named CU and the group PTNZ). Base on diagnostic results the conclusion shows that when diagnosing the ethnic-sign competence of adolescents on the material of the perception of fragments of Ukrainian traditional ornament, it was recorded that the students involved in the future to the profession of embroiderer showed a higher level of erudition in knowledge of the signs and symbols of Ukrainian folk embroidery. This condition referred to the following stages and obliged to investigate the correlation between the choice of symbols associated with Ukraine and their own personality within groups studying embroidery.