Bazilenko A. K. The features of values orientation of social activity of student youth

In this article the types of students’ values orientation and the levels of values component of student youth social activity have been founded. The students’ values orientation specifies on its understanding of sense of life and attitude toward an environment, determines an orientation and levels of human activity in all spheres of vital functions. We consider that the basic indexes of values component of social activity are: the aspiring to the high standards of social activity, values priorities of active and productive life, other people welfare, honesty and boldness.

In this article the research method of values component of students’ social activity has been grounded.We were studied the factors of values component of students' social activity using the test questionnaires «Morphological test of vital values».

This study was conducted among 715 students from HEI of different forms of ownership, years of studying, humanities and technical majors, full-time and part-time teaching. At the result of this study by a computer program SPSS, version 16.0, the statistical significance between the levels of values component of students’ social activity depending their sex and type of employment, between the types of human orientation depending the middle mark of studying have been found. The tendency of grouth of level of the values component of social activity of students from state HEI in comparison with private HEI has been found. The features of values orientation of social activity of student youth has been analyzed, and types of students for the values orientation has been characterized. As a result of research of values component of social activity we identified and characterized its levels.

In further studies it is necessary to analyze the levels of: motivational, emotional and volitional, cognitive and reflective, active components of students’ social activity in order to identify and characterize the levels of students’ social activity.