WORLD OUTLOOK AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM

Abstract

The article shows that the world outlook is a structural component of the personality, which affects its ori- entation, self-determination and attitude to the world. It defines as a system of views and ideas about the world and itself in it. In general, the world outlook is the system of views on the world and the place of man, society and mankind in it, on the attitude of man to the world and to himself, as well as the corresponding views of these basic attitudes of people, their ideals, principles of activity, value orientations. It can be defend as the integration of experience, knowledge and self-awareness into the value picture of the world, which determines the human life orientation, its relation to reality and to own self.

The article analyzes and presents the main theoretical approaches to the outlook of the individual: 1) world outlook as a system of views and representations; 2) world outlook as a valuable picture of the world; 3) world outlook as a structural component of self-consciousness. It is determined that the content of the worldview is a set of values orientations, ideals, beliefs, knowledge, norms, assessments, higher feelings that form a valuable picture of the world of personality and determine its type and form. The leading psychological functions of the world outlook are shown: the regulation and organization of the behavior and activities of the individual, the formation of the integrity and subjectivity of the individual, its value-semantic fulfilling and orientation, the promotion of reflection and the realization of Self, evaluation of objects of reality through the formation of a picture of the world and the model “World and Me”. The psychological content of the world outlook through the description of its components is considered. It was shown, that worldview beliefs, acting as meaning-sig- nificant units of personality orientation, are manifested in a variety of forms of its fundamental behavior – the sequences carried out in accordance with the universal notions of the world and the value relation to it of free and responsible, primarily from the moral point of view, action-actions.