Психология социального развития

The analysis of the historical and psychological literature has allowed to reveal a number of approaches to definition of concept «mentalition» and «mentality». Works of the Moscow psychological school represent attempts to consider integrated mechanisms of mentality and its communication with generalising socially-psychological characteristics of the person and share on two directions socially-psychological categories, such as the way of life, social representations, etc.

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.

The relevance of the study is due to the following fact. The study of the personal determinants of self-effi cacy of medical university students is a relevant research issue as it allows us to identify their contribution to the development of an adequate image of the “professional self” in the structure of the self-concept of future doctors. The purpose of the research is to study the correlation between personal characteristics of university students and diff erent degrees of self-effi cacy in educational and professional activities. Hypothesis.

The relevance of the study is due to the following fact. Comparative analysis of individual psychological characteristics of students with and without addiction to social networks, that is conducted by means of the integrative approach, allows us, firstly, to identify the connection of multi-level characteristics in the structure of the individuality and, secondly, to single out latent, resource capabilities of the individual for psycho-prophylaxis and psycho-correction of this addiction.

The relevance of the study is due to the poor development of the problem of professional self-realization of IT specialists. The specifi city of the professional activity of this category of employees imposes special requirements on their individual psychological characteristics, which ensure the success of self-realization of specialists engaged in information and computer activities. Purpose: to identify the specifi cs of self-realization of IT professionals with diff erent individual typological features.