Emotional and Volitional Component of Formation of the Technical University Students’ Cognitive Independence: Diagnostic Study Results

This article is about the essence and content of the concepts of “emotion” and “will”, the constituents of the cognitive independence. The latter is considered to be an integrative property of people related to their ability and desire to carry out purposeful independent cognitive activity. So, the emotions that a person experiences in everyday life affect individual and social development and the formation of interpersonal relationships, express the state of the subject and its attitude to the object. The will contributes to the implementation and bringing the action to the final result, overcoming the internal obstacles. There have been identified positive and negative emotions, as well as the main volitional qualities that need to be learned by technical university students. The main structural components of the technical university students’ cognitive independence are highlighted. The levels of the personality criterion of the emotional and volitional component are formulated. In the work, the methodology of revealing the formation of the emotional and volitional component of the formation of technical university students’ cognitive independence is highlighted. The features of the research and experimental work control phase of the pedagogical experiment are disclosed. The results of the study can be used to develop special courses, teaching aids, when course and master papers writing.