Actual Identity of Modern Students

The article is devoted to the study of one of the temporal aspects of personal identity - actual identity. The relevance of the topic is determined by the need to identify the characteristics of the actual identities of modern students, who today face a number of problems of social reality caused by the war. The purpose of the article is to determine the structure and content of the actual identities of modern students. The article provides a brief overview of classical and recent domestic research on the topic of identity as one of the basic concepts of general, social, and developmental psychology. The article presents the criteria for individual psychological and social maturity - the main achievement of student age as a specific age period – and points out the importance of forming a system of social and personal identities of future specialists. The author provides a definition of actual identity as a socioculturally determined, dynamic component of the self-concept of the personality, which provides the subject with orientation in the social environment and finding their own place there. Actual identity is a holistic system that combines a certain number of interrelated constructs and has a different structure, determined by the individual characteristics of the subject and their sociocultural environment. The results of a pilot empirical study conducted using M. Kuhn and T. McPartland's “Twenty Statements Test” on a sample of 54 junior students, including 20 males (37.04%) and 34 women (62.96%). A collective matrix of students' current identity, consisting of 13 categories, created using content analysis, is presented. The leading identities are identified and interpreted: “Family,” “Characteristics and roles in communication,” “Metaphorical definitions,” “Personal qualities,” “Studenthood.” Prospects for further research are outlined, which should be aimed at determining the temporal aspects of the identity of modern students - retrospective, actual, and prospective identities and their dynamics.