этническая идентичность

The contradiction between the necessity to identify the resource potential of ethnic identity in modern conditions, on the one hand, and the contradictory data on its development in persons whose socialization takes place in an ethnically homogeneous environment, on the other hand, makes the study issue relevant. The research purpose: a retrospective study of the ethnic identity development in high school students living in a mono-ethnic Russian region – the Smolensk region.

In article author described results of the empirical research directed on check of a hypothesis of existence of distinctions in psychological features of young people with different types of the relation to ex62 tremists. The received results testify that values, basic beliefs, ethnic identity and representations of youth about extremist are characterized by specifics at young people with negative, indifferent and loyal type of the attitude towards extremists. The most convex are psychological features of respondents with loyal type of the attitude towards extremists.

The article presents the results of theoretic and empirical investigations of ethnic and civil identity in representatives of various ethnic groups. The study was carried out on the proportionately selected sample consisting of representatives of the Russian, Kazakh, and Armenian ethnic groups from the city of Saratov, Saratov region (n = 32, males and females; aged 16–17). Application of the psychodiagnostic toolset: «Who am I?» questionnaire by Manfred Kuhn and Thomas McPartland, «Who are we?» questionnaire by V. A. Yadov, «Types of ethnic identity» by G. U.

Investigation of the correspondence between characteristics of ethnic identity and subjective well-being is necessary for the development of welfare programmes based on the identity factor. Purpose of the study: analysis of the relationship between characteristics of ethnic identity and subjective well-being of Russians and Kazakhs living in Russia and Kazakhstan.