Психология

This article is about the results of the research about external and internal factors (age, sex, geographic location, personal characteristics, features of value sphere and the level of breeding), which influence on the development of teenagers attitude to money. These factors were detected with the help of empirical study and there is a description of how money can shape the teenagers attitude to it.

Author examines the space of Ancient Greek symposium, as including in itself the projective realities of the sympotic vase-painting, from the point of view of cognitive patterns underlying it.

The article is devoted to the results of a comparative analysis of terminology used to describethe phenomenon of «burn-out» and modern empirical studies of this phenomenon among representatives of various professional groups. Emphasizes the need to study the dynamics of the structure of professional burnout in the process of professionalization in terms of sistemogenetic approach.

The article covers the results of the study on time perspective, personality traits and self-injurious behaviour of drug-addicted patients. Statistically high rates of depression, irritability and reactive aggression are distinguished; time perspective is characterized by hedonistic and fatalistic fixation on the present, negativistic evaluation of the past and uncertainty of the future; there is a high rate of self-injurious acts in the sample.

The article is devoted to the scientific basis for a unified social theory needed to explain the reasons, to predict the aftermath of the global systemic crisis and to develop the concept of social ideal of desired future. 

The correlation between social capital and relationships to money was discussed. We suggested that social capital may perform a regulatory function in the people’s relation to material resources, which may occur at the individual level in relation to money. It was found that social capital at the individual level, demonstrates a negative effect on the following groups of monetary attitudes: «retention», «power» «inadequacy», «security».

The advisability of the special socio-psychological knowledge which using in the investigation and judicial proceedings group crimes were shown in the article. The understanding of the subject of the judicial psychological examination of the criminal group was proposed. Also the main methodological principles underlying the forensic psychological research were highlighted there.

Relations between empirical data, theory structure and foundations of scientific psychology (interpreted as academic and applied discipline) are considered. Genesis and transformation of foundations of scientific psychology are represented. Declared and latent foundations of psychological knowledge, their relations with common sense, life experience and intuition are analyzed. 

This article presents results of the study of interethnic relations in two border areas: polyethnic area of Russia and monoethnic area of Kazakhstan. The social psychological factors and peculiarities of personality examined and correlated with the manifestation of ethnic tolerance / intolerance.

The article offers the analysis of individuality conception formulated in the works of B.G. Ananiev. It is stated that the Ananiev's concept of individuality has two inseparably connected meanings: individuality as an inner world of individuality and as a system integrity of human qualities – as of a person, individuality, subject of activity and content of inner world. The contradictoriness which defines the development of individuality is displayed and its causes are exposed.