CONSCIENCE AS A STRUCTURAL COMPONENT OF CONTEMPORARY YOUTHSELF-IDENTIFICATION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of conscience as a structural component of person’s self-identification, a deliberate image of the “future self”. Four groups of interconnections of self-image are revealed, the structural and formal characteristics of conscience perception by contemporary youth are presented: (1) lack of perception of conscience and the “future self” (“diffusive self”); (2) the “future self” as a “social self”, the perception of conscience in
the form of pre-conceptual thinking; (3) the “future self” as an “immanent self”, the perception of conscience in the form
of pre-conceptual or conceptual thinking; (4) the “future self” as a “transcendent self”, the perception of conscience in the form of conceptual thinking. The statistical analysis of the data shows that adolescence is a sensitive period to create the image of the “future self” in connection with the development of the perception of conscience.

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