Keyword: «biographical method»

The author presents the results of theoretical and practical research, implementing the task of identifying factors of family education in determination of development communication among children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities.

The numerical assessment of a person's willpower always remains an urgent scientific problem. This situation is typical not only for psychology. The problem is relevant for historical, social, and political sciences, as well as in the practice of managing economic systems. The purpose of the study is to modify the information and mathematical method for the quantitative assessment of a person's volitional characteristics based on his biographical data. For this purpose, three interrelated concepts are used: the power of an independent volitional quality, the power of expression of will and willpower. The method proposed by the authors is used to assess the volitional properties of a number of outstanding Russian figures. These examples allow us to better understand not only the method presented in the work, but they also have an independent historical and psychological significance.

The article discusses current scientific approaches to the problem of studying personality, based on biographical methodology. Classifications of areas of biographical research available in domestic and foreign literature are described. A comparative analysis of the indicated methodological approaches of biographical studies of personality has been carried out; the features of each individual direction are disclosed in detail; general features characteristic of biographically oriented approaches to the study of personality are derived. Some philosophical and methodological aspects characteristic of biographical research are derived and identified.