Психология социального развития

The article brings forward the author’s definition, research program and the main results of the experimental investigation of the nucleus of the stuff, the core of which is represented in the interconnection between self-image and referentiality. We have developed the meth­odological grounds and methods of research of the qualitative charac­teristic of the nucleus of the stuff, motivational grounds for its prefer­ences: observation, experiment, testing, private conversation.

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.

The article provides the results of empirical research conducted on a sample of adolescents 11–13 years (N = 100) with the use of reflective self-evaluation technique, «I and the Other», which includes verbal and graphic representations of personal interaction «I – Hero». The study identifies specific adolescents’ emotional and value attitude to the Hero, and emotional status of representation «Hero»: authoritarian, democratic, diffuse, repressive.

The article discusses interrelation between the hostility attribution and behavior scenarios with the children in aggression provoking situation. It has been found that the predominant cognitive styles used by the younger students to explain the reasons for peers’ behavior in aggression provoking situation are non-hostility and chance attribution, and tendency to forgiveness. Primary school students regardless of gender tend to choose the strategy of passive aggression and assertive response.

The article offers definition of identity from the theoretical angle of subjective-existential approach. It is pointed out that on the one hand personal identity reflects the degree of definiteness, consistency of personality’s system organization with inclusion of all the fields of its existence. On the other hand, personality defines itself as an actor, that holds a certain position in the system of social identifications and its identity is conditioned by the way a personality identifies Others in relation to itself.

The article discusses the current problem of information socialization in relation to her teenage stage. It is proved that the new information technologies are today both the means and the social environment of the individual in adolescence and early adulthood. It is argued that new information, the content expressed in the dynamics of the various areas of adolescent socialization.

The article discusses contents of the key concepts used in modern psychological research of personality adaptation. The author suggests that we define psychological adaptation as a developing process and a result of balanced and dynamic correlation between the requirements (capabilities) of environment and capabilities (requirements) of personality. The article throws light on correlation between categories of adaptation and interaction. Psychological adaptation is happens in a form of active interaction with the environment.

The study shows that socio-cultural-interdeterministic dialogical approach focuses on conditioned interdeterministic nature of interactions between situational, personal, and activity determinants of behavior, which are actualized in concrete historical and cultural context. The article substantiates the necessity of viewing the range of problems of a personality in the three-dimensional continuum of the apprehended-non-apprehended-existential, which allows to cover the diversity of manifestations of psychological phenomenology.

The article covers peculiarities of social psychology of the modern personality object field. We emphasize the necessity of bringing together various approaches to analysis of a personality as a representative of social groups. We pose a number of problems of current importance, which are to be solved with the help of the inter-disciplinary analysis. Special focus is set on the problems of socialization and its effects, subjective well-being, social activity and self-determination of a personality.

The article presents theoretical analysis of the scientific problem of attention in the context of professional activity of medical institutions’ staff. Special attention is given to social orientation of attention in representatives of professions of the socio-economic type. The study shows that socialization of attention functions through its inclusion into various social groups and various types of social and psychological activity.