Gender peculiarities of primary schoolchildren’s critical self-attitude determination

Abstract

The article describes the investigation of critical self-attitude among primary schoolchildren and its determinants. Critical self-attitude is the attitude based on the divergence between the real self and the ideal self. This type of self-attitude is a new formation of primary school age. The data that we got showed that the development of critical self-attitude has a complex system of determination and is determined by the whole social development situation including school performance and the child’s relations with the teacher, peers and parents. It was found that there are particular leading factors influencing the development of some self-attitude aspects. At the same time their influence is mediated by the other components of the social development situation. The investigation showed that gender differences of critical self-attitude determination can be found among primary school children.