Features of life world of orphans in transition from meaning tovalue consciousness

Scientific interest in the study of the formation of the life world of children deprived of parental care is due to theobjectives of organizing state care of children and adolescents, social orphans, whose number is increasing in our country. Use of thesystems approach in psychology (L.V. Vygotsky, S.L. Rubinstein, V.I. Slobodchikov, V.E. Klochko) gives an opportunity to study theperson in integrity, not as a sum of some elements. The need to turn to the concept of "person's life world" is dictated by the fact thatwithout access to the supersensible realities of this concept the problem of reality and the reality of human existence can neither bestated, nor explained. To study the spatial and temporal organization of the life world of young adolescents (the transition from themeaning consciousness to the value one) a purposefully designed questionnaire was used that included open-end questions andunfinished sentences. The study involved 40 children deprived of parental care aged from 10 to 12.5. The study revealed the features ofindividual time and personal space, which shows, on the one hand, the narrowness, insularity of the child's life world, on the other -emergence of meanings associated with the need for self-affirmation, positive recognition, which can be considered as the resource ofself-development, living space expansion, which should be based on the psychological-pedagogical interaction with young adolescentsdeprived of parental care. It is proved that the features of such children's life world in the transition from the meaning to the valueconsciousness have the following tendencies: the mind becomes selective; the processes of thinking go beyond the perceived situationinto nature, culture, social relations, self-expression and self-assertion; substantial unidirectional orientation of meanings indicating theirgreatest emotional load may contribute to the narrowing of the scope of meaning, fixation of emotional stress and formation andconsolidation of certain (negative) personal qualities; dominance of meanings of self-expression and self-assertion; new meanings ofaltruistic community programs. The temporary transpective of young adolescents has the following features: the present is limited andpoor in its semantic uniformity; lack of one's own initiative; meanings associated with social contacts are not represented in the mind.Past is personified, full of meanings reflecting the desire for self-assertion, self-acceptance. Meanings that make up the space of thenearest future are not personally important in the minds of adolescents.

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