Keyword: «egocentrism»

The paper discusses the issue of egocentrism among primary school children with signs of giftedness. Society needs people with all kinds of talent, and this diversity is prepared and already apparent in the early school years. Egocentrism among primary school children with signs of giftedness also causes difficulties in relationships with peers. Egocentrism among primary school children with signs of giftedness brings many problems, which can be solved by the help of teachers and psychologists.

The urgency of the problem is due to the importance of the study of irritability and touchiness as negative personality traits that prevent the establishment of optimal relations with other people. The purpose of the work was to identify the relationship of irritability and touchiness with egocentrism, attitude towards people and irrational beliefs among students. The study involved 77 students of the Cherepovets State University - future psychologists. The authors’ questionnaires for detecting irritability to people, sensitivity to a person, the test of egocentric associations by T. I. Pashukova, the touchiness scale of E. P. Ilyin and P. A. Kovalev, the list of irrational beliefs of A. Beck and A. Freeman were used as diagnostic tools. As a result, a positive relationship was revealed between irritability and passive-aggressive irrational beliefs, as well as between touchiness and egocentrism with irrational beliefs of a dependent type. In addition, a negative relationship was revealed between touchiness and such characteristics of attitudes toward people as understanding of a person and willingness to provide assistance. These results may be used in the framework of the university psychological services, as well as in the process of training students - future teachers and psychologists.