Criteria and indicators of adolescents' readiness for military-professional activities

The article considers the problem of assessing the degree of formation of adolescents' readiness for military-professional activity; the author's express questionnaire for its diagnostics is presented. The criteria of adolescents' readiness for military-professional activity are described: value, cognitive, emotional and behavioral; the main empirical indicators of their formation are characterized. The study sample consisted of 120 students of 10 grades of schools in the city of Kostroma (69 boys and 51 girls). The results of the study showed that the value and emotional components of readiness for military-professional activity are most developed in modern adolescents. Students have value orientations associated with the military profession, realize the importance of protecting their homeland, and also have an emotionally positive attitude to military service, experience feelings of pride and patriotism when talking about a military career. The behavioral component of readiness for military-professional activity in adolescents is developed to the least degree. Today's adolescents are a resource for the development of society in the near future. That is why a timely assessment of the formation of their readiness for military-professional activity is extremely important in the context of an unstable military-political situation; it allows you to build an individual profile of military-professional development and provides an opportunity to organize targeted career guidance work with adolescents.