Methodological principles of research of personal identity in soldiers

Abstract

The article presents methodological principles of the study of personal identity soldiers. It is assumed that personal identity of a solder is a manifestation of a military formation of his positive «self-concept» content, awareness of military service as a spiritual need for the protection of the state and common European values. The formation of personal identity of a soldier may have some age dynamics. It develops depending on a person experience of significant biographical events and formed her spiritual values that in the future may affect the performance of his duties. The objectives of the empirical study is to determine the mechanisms, factors and stages of formation of personal identification in soldiers and development of diagnostic criteria of formation of personal identity. There was theoretically grounded structural and logical scheme and the concept of psychological patterns of personal identity in soldiers