The article considers the concept of the social maturity of adolescents in the context of the development of creative abilities. The relationships of social maturity with socialization, social creativity and innovative thinking of adolescents are researched. It is found that girls are more likely to move from the previous to the next level of social maturity. It is found that with age, the ability to social creativity develops. There is a connection between the level of social creativity and the levels of social autonomy, social morality and social activity of adolescents.

The aim of the article is to study the mental states factors of primary school pupils’ anxiety during the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic. The psychological factors of school anxiety and fears are theoretically substantiated. The methodological starting points of the empirical study are distinguished. The combination of psychological and physiological semantic parameters of the phenomenon is taken into account. Valid psychodiagnostic methods were used. The structure of mental states of pupils’ anxiety, which consisted of five main factors F1-F5 (∑D = 76.371; V = 20.005), was studied by factor analysis of ANOVA. It is established that the principal is the mental state F1 “School anxiety” (D = 38.029; V = 9.962), which is interrelated with the mental state F4 “Self-realization anxiety” (D = 9.711; V = 2.544) (rs=-.443; p≤.01) and the mental state F2 “Emotional-expressive anxiety” (D=16.057; V=4.206) (rs=.373; p≤.01). It was established and grounded that the mental state F5 “Isolation-physiological anxiety” (D=4.529; V=1.186) is suicidal. It is generalized that the obtained empirical results and theoretical substantiations will promote: realization of the decision of educational problems in primary school age; implementation of the obtained results in preventive and corrective-developmental work; will reduce anxiety and affect the formation of adequate behavior of fourth-graders of secondary education.

The purpose of empirical research is to establish the relationship of functional-role positions (ego-states) with other indicators of future professionals ’independence to establish the level of manifestation of functional ego-states. The investigation contemplated methods are projective methods, psychodiagnostic methods with valid scales, author’s method “Indirect self-assessment of independence” (“ISI”) and the author’s questionnaire “Persuasion in independence” (“PII”). The results indicated that the most important for the respondents the value of independence, the more they are focused on taking into account the actual possibilities and autonomous action on the basis of objective data (ego-state “Adult”), as well as control, management, criticism of other people (ego-state “Parent-controller”). Therefore, the more autonomous respondents, the less interdependent they are, and vice versa.

The article discusses correlations between a person’s musical space and the degree of personality harmony. The sound environment of a person always influences personality formation and his/her behaviour. By studying a person's musical preferences, a degree of harmony of his/her personality development can be understood. The article's purpose is to determine the correlation of musical preferences with the existence of personality disharmony and types of his/her relationships with others, as well as to determine the specifics of the impact of music on personality features of people with special needs. The authors started from the assumption that, depending on his/her personality traits, a person prefers certain patterns of musical discourse. The empirical study aimed to study relations of such personality features that testify the personality disharmony and are manifested in non-viable relationships with others. The personality manifestations in communications and educational activities were also analyzed. It was determined that music therapy plays an important role in the formation of their personalities for people with special needs. The correlation of personality traits with the perception of music has shown that persons with the external locus of control choose musical discourses that, as for their psychological content, reflect uncertainty, amorphy of world perception or its simplicity, primitiveness; on the contrary, persons with the internal locus of control choose energetic, purposeful music. Persons with the disharmonious type of relationships choose music whose psychological and emotional content reflects the next personality traits: possible aggressive behaviour; a life course that does not demand serious decisions, irresponsibility, and reluctance to resolve complex situations.

У статті подано результати дослідження актуальної для сучасної педагогічної та вікової психології, теоретичної та консультативної психології проблеми -розвиток типів компетентностей фахівців для роботи з кризовими категоріями клієнтів. Проаналізовано підходи до вивчення типів компетентностей у укранській та зарубіжній психологічній теорії і практиці. Метою статті є висвітлення результатів дослідження ефективності розвитку професійних компетентностей психологів під час викладання навчальних дисциплін, що розкривають специфіку роботи психолога з кризовими станами у клієнтів.Обґрунтовано застосування кейс-методів у процесі підготовки майбутніх психологів для розвитку фахових компетентностей та інтеграції взаємозв'язків між ними. Показано ефективність розвитку різних типів компетентностей, що підтверджено результатами підсумкових тестів.Ключові слова: типи компетентностей, аутопсихологічна компетентність, соціально-психологічні компетентності, професійна компетентність, кризові стани, кейс-методи. The article presents the results of research of the problem relevant for modern pedagogical and age psychology, theoretical and consultative psychology -the development of types of competencies of specialists to work with crisis categories of clients. Approaches to the study of types of competencies in Ukrainian and foreign psychological theory and practice are analyzed. The purpose of the article is to highlight the results of a study of the effectiveness of the development of professional competencies of psychologists in the teaching of disciplines that reveal the specifics of the work of a psychologist with crisis situations in clients.The use of case methods in the process of training future psychologists for the development of professional competencies and the integration of relationships between them is justified. The efficiency of development of different types of competencies is shown, which is confirmed by the results of final tests.