PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY

Abstract

The article reveals the significance of spirituality in the formation of growing generations; the psychological mechanisms of personal spiritual development are outlined. The topicality of spiritual and personal approach, the significance of principles of spiritual and personal integration, the hierarchy and value-semantic determination in studying the regularity of spiritual development are described in the article. The author indicates decisive influence of child’s spiritual health on his successful social adaptation.
It is pointed out that the priority ways of upbringing include: formation of spiritual component of pupil’s personality, actualization of psychological mechanisms of children and youths’ spiritual development. Thus, actualization of psychological mechanism of identification contributes to the acquisition of spiritual identity. Psychological mechanism of decentration helps to get rid of egocentrism. Psychological mechanism of reflection leads to the ability to think about psychological condition with the aim of its correction. Psychological mechanism of transcendence is related to the vertex experience of the personality, the striving to excellence. Psychological mechanism of awareness of life integrity gives an individual the opportunity to comprehend himself as a part of the entire integrity.
The author grounds the idea that value-semantic self-regulation is the base for willing and emotional self regulation of an individual. The peculiarities of formation of valuable orientations of children and youth at the current stage as an integral component of spiritual development of personality are researched in the article.