Prediction and Formation of Creative Youth as a Class: Genetic-Modeling and Genetic-Creative Approaches

Abstract

The article reveals the methodological problems of the study on the youth creative class formation.

The purpose of the research is to carry out forecasting and formation of creative youth as a class in modern social and psychological conditions in line with the genetic-modeling and genetic-creative approaches. In accordance with the purpose, the main tasks are defined: the analysis of the demands made to young people in modern socio-psychological conditions; to find out the most adequate method of studying the personality of today and to determine its basic principles.

Research methods. A complex of scientific research methods was used to implement the key tasks: theoretical analysis, generalization, comparison, systematization, theoretical modeling, and scientific interpretation.

Research results. It is established that the image of an ideal reference figure, identification with which acts as an intermediate but important moment of life affirmation of a personality, constitutes a separate research problem in the modern psychology of life crises and the development of strategies for overcoming them. It is found out that the great potential of psychological science lies in its applied application for the purpose of overcoming the problems of the life crisis of a personality, in the disclosure of mechanisms of free internal dialogue of personal “Me” with different hypostases of self, in the disclosure of one’s own potential of subjectivity. It is shown that the genetic and creative method procedurally practically coincides with the process of counseling and therapy. This opens up the possibility of scientific analysis of the data obtained in this process. It is established that this method helps to study the very process of psychological practice, making it the subject of scientific research. The main principles of the genetic and creative method were developed and defined, namely, the principle of development, the principle of experience, the principle of freedom, the principle of interaction, the principle of uncertainty and indeterminism, the principle of therapeutic effect.

Conlusions. The problem of scientific analysis of “grasping” the flow of a complexly structured entity, which is a personality, is analyzed, in particular, the possibilities and limitations of nomothetic and ideographic methods, the problems of reductionism, the question of the constituting principle of the personality are highlighted. It is shown that the genetic-modeling method and the genetic-creative method are remained the most adequate methods of personality research; the basic principles of use are explained. New aspects of research on personality development and self-affirmation in modern conditions are revealed.