The research about psychological determinants of the civil identity formation in adolescence

¹ V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, 295007 Simferopol, Russia
² Crimean Republic Crimean Republic In-service Teaching Training Institute, 29500 Simferopol, Russia

^* Corresponding author: cherney56@mail.ru

Abstract

The article presents the theoretical model of the study of civil identity. The model of the civil identity research is presented as the ratio of two indicators: the status of civil identity and the content of its structural components (cognitive, emotional-evaluative, need-motivational). At the cognitive component level the psychological determinant of the civil identity formation is determined as the ability to conceptualization in the field of civil problems; at the emotional-evaluative level – the combination features of positive / negative civil identity valence and the personality reflexivity level; at the emotional-evaluative component level – the nature structural organization of the adolescents’ civic activity motivation. As the result of the empirical research it is revealed that the process of the status of civil identity formation is due to the selected psychological determinants and is characterized by the following regularities: the transition from lower statuses (diffuse and predefined) to higher (moratorium and reached) is accompanied by the progressive change of the development of the ability to conceptualize, the changes in the motives of the structural connections content and the young people’s civil activity motivation structure differentiation, and the differences in the priority type of emotionalevaluative attitude to civic identity.