Interrelation of Patriotism Value with Personal Characteristics of Student Youth
The article presents results of an empirical research of significance of patriotism in the value-based orientation system for student youth and its interrelation with personal characteristics. Topicality of the research topic is caused by the fact that the modern student youth is a necessary resource of the country's progressive development that provide further prospects of its existence as a world power, while patriotism is the moral basis of the state viability, acting as an important mobilizing resource of the society's development. As a result of the quantitative analysis, the article identifies two contrast groups in regard to importance of patriotism value for them. In the first group patriotism is a priority value, in the second one it takes the last position. It is stated that patriotism as a value corresponds to such personal characteristics as behavior normalization, orientation to cooperation, an expressed need for joint activity, interest in common causes of group, tendency to empathy, high level of empathy, altruism. It is revealed that the two identified groups of young people significantly differ in their value-based orientations and personal characteristics. Studying individual and psychological features of the youth gives a chance to understand the changes happening in the modern youth environment among, and, respectively, the prospect of further society's development.