Empirical research of aspirations to leading among students of the higher educational institution

Abstract

The article represents results of the empirical research, based upon the theoretical analysis of the leader’s personality features and student’s personality. Factors, which were revealed after computing the data, let divide leadership aspirations into three content groups: active aspirations to leadership, potentially-active aspirations to leadership, passive aspirations leadership. Using the contents of the distinguished factors, the author created the psychological portraits of students with different types of aspirations to leadership.