Abstrakt: | In search for the markers of psycho-social condition of contemporary youth
The authoress focuses on theoretical analyzing the constitutive elements of psycho-social
condition of contemporary youth, as well as on indicating its major empirical markers.
The results of the research into this issue indicate that the higher the self-esteem and
the belief in one’s own ability to control events in the environment (and one’s own place
in it) are, the stronger engagement occurs, and resourceful and task strategies appear more
frequently. In the field of the young’s mental condition, a lot of maturity can be observed
in creating their own resourcefulness in situations and tasks. This can be confirmed by numerous
responses concerning: creative ways of searching for information, searching for
work, strategies in managing interesting offers which allow to develop one’s own creation,
entrepreneurship, and the gradual acquisition of independence. The fears young people
experience concern their start into independence and the satisfaction from the career they
have chosen after leaving school. They are natural phenomena – a kind of verification of
personal standards, preferred and implemented values, and the plans for the future. Young
people declare satisfaction from their temporal location - they experience the pleasure
of acquiring knowledge, and most of all, the pleasure of broadening their mental horizons
in their own social group, with which they identify and in which they feel safe. |