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1 | The article analyzes the study of high school students’ psychological well-being and their perceived social support as resources of coping behavior in situations of stress. The sample consisted of 107 high school students 16-17 years old (52 boys and 55 girls). Methods: Scale of Perceived Stress-10, Adolescent Coping Scale (ACS), Ryffs Scales of Psychological Well-being, Questionnaire of social support of G. Sommer and T. Fydrich. Descriptive statistics in groups divided by gender, correlation and regression analysis were analyzed. Results: Common factors of perceived stress, coping behavior, psychological well-being and social support, as well as gender characteristics and differences are demonstrated. Young males were more likely to demonstrate autonomy, competence and higher levels of self-acceptance. At the same time, all adolescents note the availability of social support. Girls are more stressed compared to their male peers, and they have to make more efforts to cope with it. Girls are more likely to use emotionally stressful coping strategies, whereas males are more likely to use problem-oriented and external social resources. The positive role of psychological well-being and social support for the possibility of efficient coping with stresses, as well as the targets of psychological influence and correction have been found. Instrumental support, manifested in an advice, effective or material assistance, as the provision of a ready-made solutions that do not require the teenager’s own efforts, can lead to the strengthening of the use of unproductive coping strategies. Keywords: high school students, perceived stress, coping behavior, psychological well-being; social support | 849 | ||||
2 | The article presents the results of analysing the correlation between values` orientations and life guidelines of high school students. The sample consists of 270 students of 10th – 11th grades 15–17 years old (134 boys and 136 girls). Methods: questionnaire of respondents’ socio-demographic data and questions about the degree of importance of different fields of life activity; method “Study of the peculiarities of value orientations formation”; refined and finalized questionnaire of life guidelines Results: the data on the state of the system of values` orientations of high school students are presented; the questionnaire of life guidelines for respondents of 15–17 years old was refined and the main directions of their life guidelines were revealed. It is shown that the system of values` orientations of 15–17 year old high school students is not mature and poorly differentiated by substantive characteristics as well as gender and age. This is not only its weakness, but also its development resources. Values` orientations can be formed together with and on the basis of life guidelines as far as they are more dynamic and are largely based on the direct tasks of age development, clear and understandable to high school students. It is shown that the senior school age is a sensitive period for the formation of the value-semantic sphere of personality, especially for the development of life guidelines. Keywords: high school students, values, life-meaning orientations, life orientations, life guidelines | 68 |