Психология социального развития

Primary focus of this article is on formation of communicative behavior of stuttering adolescents and adults. The article contains the outline of stages of correctional work aimed at forming communicative behavior of people who stutter. The main aim of this piece of research is substantiation, development and approbation of methods of correctional and pedagogical work, which are connected with communicative behavior of stuttering adolescents and adults.

The article presents the data of theoretical analysis related to problems of stutter (logoneurosis) as one of the extreme forms of conversation disturbances; it presents characteristics of people who stutter and their families, peculiarities of therapy for this defect. The article touches upon the problem of family involvement into the process of social rehabilitation. It is shown that utilization of non-traditional methods, such as: Yu. B.

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical investigation, which is devoted to socio-political phenomena and satisfaction with life. The investigation was made on a sample of representatives of the Russian, Tartar and Kazakhs ethnic groups (Saratov Region, N = 30). The author uses a complex of psychological and pedagogic techniques: questionnaire compiled by the author (for investigation of attitudes to socio-political phenomena), «Index of satisfaction with life test» (by N. V. Panina), «Scale of subjective well-being» (by M. V.

The article reflects the topical issues of global transformation of values, associated with demographic processes and resource potential of the state. Achievement of utmost levels and increase in depopulation, inadequate reflection of the gender factor in population policy determines the increase of the crisis and the risks of the contemporary society.

The article suggests the data of theoretical and empirical research of the problems of sportsmen resistance to factor-influence caused by the influence of society he/she is directly interacting in the course of his/her activity. Traditionally the members of this society are coaches, team-mates, competitors, and specialists of the present area: all these people are the carriers of social opinion on the level of sportsman readiness and his competitive opportunities.

Actuality and social as well as practical significance of studying victim behaviour in adolescence as the most vulnerable are grounded in the article. The results of psychological diagnostic study that was directed to identifying the adolescent behavioral strategies which dominate in a conflict, the teenagers' bent to different types of victim behaviour and correlating connections between the defined indices are described.

We present the data of theoretical and empirical study of the problem of correlation of tolerance to uncertainty and coping behavior. Empirical research was carried out on a sample of managers of organizations of the Udmurt Republic and the Perm Krai (N = 168; mean age is 33 years) with the use of psycho-diagnostic tools: McLane's tolerance to uncertainty questionnaire (MSTAT-1) adapted by E. G. Lugovitskaya; questionnaire «Strategies of overcoming stressful situations» (SOSS) by S. Hobfoll adapted by N. E. Vodopyanova, E. S. Starchenkova.

We listed the main problems that are considered in the studies of shopping and entertainment centers in different fields of humanitarian knowledge.

We have offered the theoretical analysis of the problem of value orientations of a person in psychology. We have considered psychologists' representation of the value system of a person as the hierarchy of their beliefs. The role of premarital relationship in the formation of value orientations and behaviors among today's youth is indicated. The study that we conducted on a sample of young people revealed the specifics of value orientations of young people having premarital relations.

It is shown that the problem of definition of hierarchy of valuable orientations has universal character in various cultures. The applied aspect of a studied problem can be realized in diagnostic and in developing work of the social psychologist.