Keyword: «altruism»

Thepaper is devoted to the problemss of socio-psychological attitudes in the personalalmotivation and need sphere of university students. The authors identify and revealthe degree of attitudes of "process-result" and "altruism-egoism" using independent empirical research. The authors compare the socio-psychological attitudes of the first-and second-year boys and girls.

The relevance of the work is related to the fact that the involvement of teenagers in various types of volunteer activities for the benefit of their homeland is one of the priority tasks of bringing up the younger generation today. The purpose of the work was to study the relationship between the prevailing motives of volunteer activity of adolescents with the level of social activity and to identify the pedagogical conditions of their development. The main methodological approach determining the conceptual aspects of the study was the personal activity approach, which involves focusing on the upbringing of a teenager's personality in volunteer activities by increasing his motivation and social activity of participation in socially useful activities. The article shows that the involvement of a significant number of volunteers makes it possible to effectively implement national projects, hold large-scale events in different territories of our country; volunteer activity is an important factor in the education, socialization of young people, and prevention of deviant behavior. However, in some cases, volunteers are involved according to formal characteristics, without taking into account their motives, which affects the level of their social activity in volunteer projects. During the empirical study, standardized methods were used to study the motivation and social activity of adolescents. Results: it was found that in the studied group of adolescents who expressed a desire to participate in volunteer activities, the motivation to help other people, the motivation to achieve success without a predominance of the motivation to avoid failures, and the motivation of affiliation were sufficiently expressed. Indicators of social activity and orientation to humanistic norms of life activity had a high and average level. The correlation analysis revealed pronounced statistically significant relationships between the studied indicators of motivation and indicators of social activity in adolescent volunteers. The theoretical significance lies in the systematization, generalization, clarification of conceptual characteristics concerning the prevailing motivation of volunteer activities and their social activity, and the identification of pedagogical conditions for their development. The practical significance is determined by the possibility of using the developed diagnostic program, the obtained research results, and the proposed pedagogical conditions for studying, accounting and developing the motivation of adolescents in order to increase their social activity and participation in volunteer projects.