The article presents the results of the development of the metacognitive behavior self-assessment questionnaire "Metacognitive skills in the structure of educational and professional activities. The Introduction provides a theoretical overview of the problem of metacognitive behavior and the existing methods of its study. Substantiated content validity and described the structure of the questionnaire.

   The scientific novelty lies in the development of a new measuring tool, which can be used to reliably assess not only the characteristics of metacognition that are significant for the subjects of the educational process, but also to get an idea of the degree of their awareness.

   The Methods section describes the methods, procedures and data processing. To test construct validity, the following methods were used: Metacognitive Awareness Inventory; Metacognitive behavior self-assessment scale; Differential Test of Reflection. The study involved 425 people aged 17 to 80 years - students and employees of educational institutions of the southern federal district of the Russian Federation. The Results section presents the data obtained with the questionnaire and a comparative analysis of the answers in the studied subgroups, as well as a correlation analysis with the valid questionnaires. It has been established that the majority of respondents, assessing their ways of interacting with information, note that they use metaplanning skills, procedural skills and metacognitive control quite often and consciously. The degree of awareness of the use of metacognitive skills differs in the studied subgroups. A number of correlations between the calculated indicators of the questionnaire and the scales of valid questionnaires were also found. The Discussion section contains the qualitative analysis of the obtained results, as well as analysis of their significance level. The Conclusion summarizes the findings and state that the developed metacognitive behavior self-assessment questionnaire "Metacognitive skills in the structure of educational and professional activities" has psychometric properties corresponding to this level of diagnostic tools.

   The article reveals the urgent problem of the spread of extremist ideas among young people through social networks. The Introduction shows the social significance of the problem of preventing the spread of extremism. Psychological characteristics of young people as a risk group are assessed.

   The novelty of the study lies in the review of studies on the characteristics of students' media consumption..

   The «Methods» section provides a diagram of empirical research. To collect empirical data, an online survey was used, in which 1,950 students took part. For mathematical processing of the study results, the following were used: factor and correlation analyses, as well as the Somers D-test. The section «Results» presents the results of studying such features of media consumption as: the popularity of various social networks among young people, the level of criticality of information perception, the degree of trust in different sources of information; methods of verifying suspicious information. The study found that the most popular among students is the social network VKontakte, and the most unpopular are Facebook and Twitter. Students don't tend to trust media information. They most often name Internet communities as resources for checking suspicious information. Most of all, students trust their experience and family. The last thing they trust is the media and teachers. In the «Discussion of results» section, the data obtained are compared with the results of other studies and the conclusion is formulated that social networks are a factor in the spread of radical ideas. In addition, the level of dissemination of extremist ideas is influenced by criticality regarding the information received and the level of trust in various sources of information. The Conclusion summarizes the findings of the study. The data obtained are of interest to a wide range of specialists: teachers, psychologists, sociologists, etc. They can be used in the development of preventive and corrective programs.

   This article examines possibilities of psychological using of computer simulation game «The Sims 3». In Introduction it is noted that the game provides freedom and variability of player's game strategies choice.

   The novelty of the research lies in summarizing of existing researches and systematizing psychological aspects of the game process in Russian.

   In Theoretical justification the author indicates that the game's system of skill development, including everyday life skills and professional skills, may provide a methodological material for understanding mechanisms of studying. A safe and variable virtual environment may help one to develop social skills and reduce emotional tension of certain actions, for example, public speaking. «The Sims 3» may also help to learn foreign languages. The game provides an opportunity to simulate situations from a player's life, to recreate past and modulate future. It also may help to safety get rid of negative emotions. The possibility to control everything in the game may help one to cope with anxiety. It may be useful for emotional self-regulation. In addition, playing computer game is a way of escapism. Virtual reality of the game allows to analyze game strategies based on psychological features, factor of limited and unlimited time of life, and factor of reduced social and moral control. The Discussion of the results is based on researches that observe manifestation of psychological traits and model different situations in «The Sims 3» game. The Conclusion refers to wide possibilities of empirical researches with the help of «The Sims 3».

   This article is devoted to research in the field of updating the substantive content of teacher training programs.

   The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time in one study, various components of the digitalization of the educational process are considered as the most popular in the pedagogical community: pedagogical design, Big Data, technologies of individualization of learning.

   In the Introduction, the author provides an overview of the current situation in the field of education. The «Methods» section provides the main methodological research tools: a sociological survey and methods of mathematical statistics. The «Results» section presents a new approach to the preparatory work on the study of initial knowledge and data for the development of advanced digital and end-to-end technologies in order to introduce them into the content of educational and methodological complexes and programs that need to be updated first. The latest little-studied services and tools of digital and end-to-end technologies are endowed with multifaceted didactic resources and potential, therefore, timely updating of methodological and teaching aids is important in order to increase pedagogical effectiveness. The Discussion of the results reveals
the need for teachers to familiarize themselves as soon as possible with all the rapidly growing technological innovations in the field of pedagogical design, the possibilities of big data, individualization of learning. Currently, as this study shows, excessive adherence to traditional technologies is a serious problem that hinders and hinders the digitalization of education. It is overlooked that the latest digital and end-to-end technologies make it possible for a generation of students familiar with gadgets from early childhood and born with a digit to understand many subject and interdisciplinary knowledge, and open up numerous new educational opportunities and approaches. The Conclusion reveals the need for frequent diagnostics, conducting surveys of teachers for timely updating and filling with relevant topics, manuals, tools that make the learning process effective and bring the learning process closer to individualized, personal learning is revealed.

   The article is devoted to the study of the relationship between the level of satisfaction with marriage and family relations and the specifics of the value-semantic sphere of married couples.

   The novelty of the study lies in the consideration of the dependence of the matching profiles of the value and role spheres of married couples with the level of satisfaction with marriage.

   The Introduction analyzes scientific research on the problems of satisfaction with marital relations and the value-semantic sphere of people. The typologies of marriage and family relations and the psychological characteristics of spouses that affect marital satisfaction are considered. The findings obtained in the study are of practical value for the professional activities of a psychologist in the formation of recommendations for the development of new strategies for interaction in situations of conflict, both for the still emerging and for the formed family. The main research Methods were chosen: «Questionnaire of factors influencing satisfaction with marriage» (A. N. Prudnik, A. V. Grishina), the test questionnaire «Satisfaction with marriage» (V. V. Stolin, T. L. Romanova, G. P. Butenko), the technique «Communication in the family» (Yu. E. Aleshina, L. Ya. Gozman, E. M. Dubovskoy), the test «The values and purpose-in-life orientations» (D. A. Leontiev), the questionnaire «Role expectations and claims in marriage» (A. N. Volkova), as well as analysis of the obtained data using the statistical criterion of U-Mann-Whitney and correlation analysis. The Results of the comparative analysis made it possible to identify three groups of married couples: with high, medium and low levels of satisfaction with marriage. The study was made of the profiles of the value-semantic sphere of spouses. Correspondence of the values of each of the spouses was revealed and their influence on satisfaction with marriage was established. In the Discussion of the results, it was found that the leading value orientations of the spouses are: manageability, goals and the process of life, and satisfaction with marriage is influenced by the interestingness of the life of the spouses and the possibility of building it in accordance with their goals. Interrelations between value orientations and role expectations and claims of spouses were revealed. Statistically significant differences were obtained in the field of role distribution of expectations and claims of spouses with different levels of satisfaction with marriage.