The Impact of Preschool Education Experience on Multidimensional Non-Cognitive Abilities and Personality Development of Adolescents

Abstract

The topic’s relevance is based on solving the problems of the influence of preschool education experience on the multidimensional non-cognitive abilities and personality development of adolescents. The purpose of the article was to analyse the problems of the formation of multidimensional non-cognitive processes, substantiating and determining the non-cognitive abilities of preschool children: highly developed personality, giftedness, intelligence, soft skills and conducting an experiment using the basic survey of the 2013-2014 school years conducted by the Chinese Expert Research on Education (CEPS) at Renmin University (China). The methodological approach of the research was based on the methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalisation of literary sources on the problem of researching the formation of multidimensional non-cognitive abilities, graphic methods for visual illustration and comparison of the results of the ascertaining and formative stages of the research. The content of the main concepts of “abilities” and “non-cognitive abilities” is determined, and their features and features are revealed. The identified non-cognitive abilities and their indicators, as well as the methods of their formation, can be used as methodical material for universities and for the personal development of individual preschool education specialists in near and far foreign countries.