subjective well-being

The article deals with the modern methodological approaches to the study of subjective well-being of the person: description of the phenomenon, its regulatory and functional manifestations of a systemic position, structural system, the subject, the subject-existential and meta-system approaches. The hypothetical idea of subjective well-being as a meta-system level of integration of subjective relations: cognitive, emotional, connotative (behavioral) sub-systems, each of which has its own structural organization and content are discussed.

The goal of the study was to identify the psychological aspects of self-relation as component of subjective well-being of personality of students. Theme is identification the specifics of people’s self-relations formed in various national-psychological, socio-political and economic conditions; the subject is self-relation as a determinant of subjective well-being of ethnic Russians and Kazakhs. For the diagnosis of subjective well-being method «The scale of subjective well-being» adapted by M. V. Sokolova was applied.

The article discusses the different approaches the concept of happiness. Shows the results of studies of gender differences in the representation of happiness. On the basis of empirical research identified the descriptors that represent the concept of «male» and «female» happiness.

The article discusses the results of research on the relationship of behavior strategies and subjective well-being of representatives contact ethnic groups (Russians, Kazakhs, Armenians). It is shown that in the face of threats to the well-being of some of the representatives of the ethnic groups have resorted to various behavioural strategies. Established ethnic specificity of the relationship between the characteristics of individual satisfaction and willingness to engage in risky behaviour.