Психология социального развития

The paper present the results of an experimental study of how individual characteristics of psychological safety are manifested in firstgraders depending on how well they are adapted to school. The study involved 238 children. It applied a number of techniques aimed at examining indicators of psychological safety and the level of school adaptation in first-graders.

The article presents the results of empirical study of time perspective peculiarities, conducted in a comparative aspect on the sample of senior pupils from urban and rural schools (N = 140). The following questionnaires were used: «Motivation to Success» and «Motivation of Failure Avoidance» by T. Ehlers, «Morphological Test of Life Values» by V. F. Sopov and L. V. Karpushina, «Graphic Test with Time Circles and Lines» by T. Cottle, «Sentence Completion» method by D. Saks and S. Levy, test-questionnaire «Subjective Control Level» by G.

The article presents the results of empirical study of peculiarities of leadership and viability expression of Mongolian students. The study involved 40 respondents aged 18 to 25 years, enrolled in different faculties of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. The following instruments were used in the research: «Hardiness Survey» by S. Maddi (adapted by D. A. Leontiev), «Communicative and organizing skills» (COS) by V. V. Sinyavskiy and V. A. Vedoroshin, and «Leadership skills diagnostic test» by E. I. Zharikov and E. L. Krushelnitskiy.

The paper considers the problem of socialization in the aspect of the reform of school education in Russia. The estimation is given of the national public education paradigm and its focus on the socialization of the individual student. It is pointed out that the limited activity of the modern school education only leads to difficultiesin the process of socialization of the child.

The results of validation of «The image of successful woman and successful man» projective technique, which is designed for diagnosis on gender characteristics of «successful person» subjective image, are introduced in the article.

This article is devoted to the scientific and theoretical analysis of structure and development of the ethnic identity and the ethnic communication of the Middle Volga region’s ethnos. Studying the ethnic stereotypes (auto- and hetero stereotypes) the author composes the full picture of interethnic communications in this region of Russia. The author also explains the psychological kind of Middle Volga people’s identity.

This article covers interlinks between person’s social maturity and fundamental convictions. It is shown that in the course of social maturation, positive base philosophy (inherent to lower forms) along with low activity change to a more realistic picture of the world and high level of creative and intellectual activity.

The article examines the aspects of psychological time perception by the senior pupils of secondary town schools with advanced level of education in comparison with a secondary village school. The description of psychological time perception is applied alongside with the comparative results of time perspective of personal and future life plans of senior pupils both of town and village schools.

In article are considered a frame of reference and values of leaders of public organizations of Orenburg, and also results of the interview spent with them.

In article values and meaning of the life as a part of internal resources are considered. The description of dominating values and meaning of the life, characteristic for sick of a schizophrenia is given.