Keyword: «developmental age»

The paper deals with the study of the child living space in terms of its effect on mental development. The author singles out physic-social environmental elements and analyzes behavioral peculiarities in a certain environment and types of interactions with environment. The principles of the child environment organization are described.

The rationale of this paper is characterized by the main role of emotions in the personal development, the high interest of native and foreign specialists to this issue, and understudied developmental problems of teen-age emotional intelligence development. It is given the data of emotional intelligence tests of 6th and 8th forms schoolchildren in Orenburg. The emotional intelligence level was scored by test «EmIn» suggested by D.V. Lusin. As a result of empirical research the difference of informative features in the structure of younger and elder schoolchildren’s emotional intelligence was developed.