CORRELATION BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL PERSISTENCE AND SELF- ORGANIZATION OF ACTIVITY OF SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

<strong><em>The Aim of the study</em></strong><em> is to define correlation between educational persistence and self-organization of school and university students.</em> <strong><em>Material and methods:</em></strong> <em>Psychodiagnostical complex for research the</em><em> self-organization role in the structure of educational perseverance and persistence</em><em> consists of the </em><em>following methods: questionnaire of educational persistence by M.A. Kuznetsov, O.S. Halata; questionnaire of self-organization of activity by E.Y. Mandrikova. The diagnostic indicators of all these methods have been conducted analysis of r-Pearson’s correlation. The psychometric sample consisted of 260 people (181 women and 79 men, average age is 18 years).</em> <strong><em>Results:</em></strong> <em>Educational persistence – is a strong-willed individual quality; it is responsible for supporting the initiated action, manifestation of will power or volitional control of action. </em><em>Persistent educational action consists of: 1) purposefulness, that is, the aspiration of learners to achieve the educational goal; 2) the application of this person's efforts, 3) high self-control and 4) the ability to get the work done.</em> <strong><em>Conclusions:</em></strong> <em>It is proved that the </em><em>persistence of school and university students </em><em>is due to the </em><em>positive parameters of </em><em>regularity, purposefulness, perseverance and fixation. This indicates the ability to overcome all the difficulties and obstacles on the way to achieving the goal.</em>