Мetaphorical models of personal property in economic consciousness of teenagers and young adults

- Дембицька, Н.М. (2015) Мetaphorical models of personal property in economic consciousness of teenagers and young adults Актуальні проблеми психології: збірник наукових праць Інституту психології імені Г.С.Костюка НАПН України, 11. pp. 61-70. ISSN 2072-4772

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Abstract

Article concerns very actual problem of the conceptualization of reality of teenagers’ and senior pupils’ personal property relations. The article analyzes metaphorical content of teenagers’ and senior pupils’ economic stories. It is shown that teenagers and senior pupils use pervious economic experience. Senior pupils are more tend to predict economic events and are based on intuition, creativity and own initiative. This article shows the teenagers’ understanding themselves as active owners, who is associated wit control and changes. Teenagers demonstrate an attempts to move beyond the perceived direct and foreseeable world of the personal economy; show an attempts to feel property in level of emotions, focusing on its cultivation and accessories. They demonstrate the willingness to defend their interests and benefits, to win the competition. Teenagers are characterized by understanding of the personal property as a mobile processes of growth, development, change, metamorphosis. They are inherent in the motivation to improve their material well-being and desire of material well-being; tendency to unselfish assistance to the needy. Peculiarities of senior pupils’ awareness of reality of the personal property are it’s a dynamic phenomenon through categories of fluidity and consistency. Senior pupils are understanding it as a process that requires planning, prediction, control and personal management skills. They are understanding the experience of personal property relations as necessary today. They are able to testing their own intuition, creativity and initiative as a personal psychological resources in the management of personal property. Also senior pupils demonstrate the awareness of need for a material self-reliance. They are categorized themselves as actors of multiplying of economic benefits.

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