PROBLEMS OF YOUNG ADOLESCENTS’ SELF-REGULATION

Abstract

The article discusses the issues of self-regulation development in young adolescents. It reveals the structural elements of self-regulation process, characterizes the structural-functional and content-psychological aspects of self-regulation. The presented structure served as the basis for the analysis of self-regulation of children of early adolescence, taking into account the changes that occur with children at this age stage. The following features of self-regulation of young adolescents in different spheres of their personal development have been identified: a decrease in the ability of self-regulation due to changes occurring at the physiological level and in the functioning of the nervous system of the young adolescent; an increase in the young adolescent's ability to consciously and arbitrarily regulate the motivational sphere of personality in combination with weak arbitrariness of learning motivation; the emergence of the ability for independent volitional regulation of activity; a decrease in the ability for self-regulation in the emotional sphere due to the emergence of a tendency to self-reinforcement, a tendency to affectation in behavior; connection of the adequacy of the image of the "I" and the ability to self-regulation.