Keyword: «cadet education»

The article discusses and analyzes the personal characteristics of students studying in the cadet classes of secondary schools. Using an adapted version of the Kettell test for children of the corresponding age, the authors compared the personal characteristics of cadet schoolchildren with average statistics characteristic of this age category. For cadet boys, statistically significant differences were revealed in only one of the factors (factor A) compared with the average indicators, and for cadet girls, differences were found in 4 factors (C, G, O, and Q3). The discovered personality traits of children studying in the cadet class of a secondary school indicate that special attention should be paid to the psychological support of the studying of this cohort of students.

The article analyzes the state of cadet education in Russia. The relevance of studying the problem of children's adaptation to a new status in cadet schools or boarding schools is associated with the need for socio-psychological support of pupils in the process of mastering new social roles, accepting a new social status, and establishing a system of interpersonal relations in the team. It is more sparing to study in cadet classes in general education schools, where middle and high school students stay in the institution only during lessons and additional classes, while they spend the remaining time at home with their family. Such a "dualistic" position of students of cadet classes, connected, on the one hand, with the paramilitary way of their education, and, on the other, with home living, puts them between students of cadet corps/colleges/boarding schools and students of general education schools. However, the psychological aspects of such education have not been sufficiently studied.

The article examines and analyzes the personal characteristics of adolescents studying in cadet classes and classes of the program "Mathematical vertical". Using the adapted version of the Cattell test for adolescents of the corresponding age, the authors compared the personality traits of school cadets and school mathematicians. For boys cadets and boys mathematicians, statistically significant differences were found in one of the factors (factor A), tendencies to change were also revealed in two factors (factor H and O), and for girls cadets and girls mathematicians, no differences were found. The personality traits of adolescents that we have discovered, especially boys studying in the cadet and mathematics classes of a general education school, indicate that special attention should be paid to the psychological support of these educational programs.