Keyword: «optimism»

The article is concerned with the problem of positive thinking, the meaning of life orientations and person's viability. The empirical study shows the positive correlations between the positive thinking, the meaning of life orientations and the viability of students.

One of key problems of the advanced school age is a problem of communication with peers. Relationship with companions is in the center of attention of the senior, they also in many respects predetermine behavior, activity, and in the subsequent exert impact on formation of personal qualities and social installations. For the senior it is important to take the significant place among peers, to be recognized in group or to be the leader in collective. However, not each pupil can reach it as specific features and installations of many children prevent to take the high status place, to be socialized in that social group which for them is reference. Quite often it is connected with optimistic or pessimistic style in communication. Results of an empirical research of features of the social status of seniors of optimists and pessimists are presented in article.

In this article features and problems of professional formation of the identity of the teacher who is characterized by existence of helplessness as the characteristic influencing all spheres of the life and activity of the person interfering growth of the personality and evolutionary processes in society are considered. The author raises the questions of formation of the theory of personal helplessness and also the reason of formation of helplessness of teachers and ways of her overcoming.

This article is devoted to the concept of dispositional optimism. The article discusses approaches to the study of optimism, features that are inherent to optimists/pessimists, as well as the theory of research of dispositional optimism from different points of view. The results of an empirical study of dispositional optimism are presented. The study allowed us to determine the level of dispositional optimism among students. The article concludes with conclusions and discussion of possible directions for further research.