Nina Nizovskih

The principle of “self-care”, formulated by ancient Greek thinkers, has acquired acute relevance in the modern socio-cultural situation. Researchers are currently paying more and more attention to the phenomenon of “self-care”. The purpose of the article is to describe the results of a study of college students' ideas about the phenomenon of "self-care", as well as to analyze the relationship of these ideas with life satisfaction and psychological comfort of students. Research methods: essay “Self-care”, original questionnaire, E. Diener's life satisfaction scale, K. Riff's psychological comfort scale, HAM (health, activity, mood) questionnaire. The revealed structure of students' ideas about the content of "self-care" correlates with the data available in the literature and includes ideas about their personal development and well-being, as well as caring for others. The manifestation of the students’ keeping to the principles of taking care of themselves in real life positively correlates with their satisfaction with life, indicators of psychological comfort, activity and mood as well as with such indicators of psychological comfort as goals in life, self-acceptance, environment control, positive relationships.

The relevance of the research presented in the article is due to the change in the requirements for the professional training of university graduates in the modern labor market. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need for the formation of psychological readiness to manage in training of psychologists at the stage of university education. The phenomenon of management in personality psychology is a special issue, since the readiness to management is associated with the essential characteristics of a person, his/her potential ability to be the subject of personal development and the self-made person. The result of the theoretical and methodological analysis presented in the article was the provision that, within the framework of professional training of students – future psychologists, it is necessary to cultivate the development of their ability: 1) to recognize themselves as subjects of their own development; 2) to admit the psychological readiness to manage as one of the values of self-development; 3) to realize the motivation for the development of psychological readiness to management; 4) to instrumental readiness to control themselves and others.

The problem of communicative competence of senior preschoolers is analyzed in the article. It presents the results of empirical study of the cognitive complexity connection in the sphere of interpersonal perception among older preschool children with their social status and characteristics of interpersonal relations with other children and adults.