AGE AND GENDER CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FORMATION OF THE PERSONALITY TRAITS OF MODERN ADOLESCENTS

The stage of pupil’s stay in the senior classes of a modern school is extremely important both from the point of view of forming a high level of educational and, later, professional adaptation of their organism to conditions of everyday activity, and from the standpoint of ensuring adequate formation of the personality traits of girls and boys. On the other hand, precisely this period, due to its duration, degree of tension and depth of adaptive transformations that take place, should be considered a natural model for evaluating the course of the processes of social, professional and personal self-determination of modern schoolchildren [1, 2, 3, 4. 5]. Therefore, it should be considered extremely important to determine and evaluate the features of the mental development of persons of high school and teenage age, to develop age and gender standardized normative indicators of the formation of the leading features of the personality of girls and boys.