The role of social and psychological influences on the process of formation and optimisation of the system of student youth values in conditions of educational environment

Abstract

Abstract. Main social-psychological and psychological characteristics of the student youth as well as the tasks it faces put forward the topical issue of formation, development, and optimisation of the system of student youth values in a higher educational institution. The aim of the paper is to research the role of social-psychological and psychological influences on the process of formation and optimisation of the value system of the student youth in the educational environment. Theoretical methods have been used: the secondary analysis of sources on the study to systematise and generalise the available data, to determine the nature of basic concepts of the study, to identify the current state of the problem under consideration. The research results: (i) the role of social-psychological and psychological influences on the process of formation and optimisation of the value system of the student youth in the educational environment has been analysed; (ii) the concept of «influence» as a complex social-psychological formation and the forms of its displays have been considered; (iii) three groups of methods of psychological influence and the main methods of influence on values that are the regulators of displays of an individual activity have been characterised; (iiii) methods of conditions optimisation of actualisation of semantic and target attitudes of an individual have been revealed; (iiiii) problems of social influence, its two types and means have been considered; (iiiiii) the specificity of functional-role influence have been revealed; (iiiiiii) social and psychological mechanisms of influence, their groups and the necessity of their application have been determined. Much attention has been focused on the forms of social influence: punishment and coercion, remuneration, expert assessment, reference group, authority and law. An attempt has been made to define the concept of «value influence» as a kind of social and psychological influence in conditions of which the transfer of individual or social values takes place. Key words: social and psychological influence, psychological influence, system of values, the student youth, educational environment, value influence, social values, individual values.