Keyword: «terminal values»

The paper presents the theoretical analysis of value orientations among modern young people and the results of the study of terminal values in life of students-psychologists. Leading positions in the hierarchy of terminal values of students-psychologists is a “private prestige”, “preserve their individuality” and “active social contacts”. These values are meaningful in the most important spheres of life such, as “training and education”, “professional life”, “hobbies”.

The article considers the influence of labor activity on the formation of the adolescent's personality, presents the results of the author's sociological research on the attitude of modern adolescents in Togliatti to socially useful work and paid labor activity.