эмиграционные намерения

The article is devoted to the topical problem of studying psychological
factors of person’s commitment to their country, with individual
life values being their integral parts. The author has undertaken an
empirical study of the value orientations of the representatives of
Russia and Kazakhstan, who are committed to their country and
who want to emigrate. The study is based on the S.Н. Schwartz’s
motivational values concept and understanding of the psychological

Статья посвящена актуальной проблеме исследования смысло-
образующих  мотивов  приверженности  личности  своей  стране. 
Представлены результаты эмпирического исследования, выпол-
ненного на выборке лиц молодого возраста (N = 300, от 18 до 30 
лет) с применением субъективного психологического интервью, 
направленного  на  выявление  приверженности  своей  стране  и 
эмиграционных намерений, и авторской психологической анкеты 
«Смыслообразующие мотивы приверженности своей стране», ис-

Macropsychological analysis described in this article allows to examine emigratory intentions as manifestations of some new modes of existential experience arising from global changes engulfing all society. Among the particular psychological phenomena the author distinguishes attachment to high-speed life tempo, initiation of new artificial necessities, changes in the sphere of values, social amnesia and some others.

The article shows how such elements of cultural tradition as folk fairy tales and traditional children's games participate in the development of emotional sphere and creative thinking of preschool children, as well as in building their life strategies including emigration at mature age. The author present the results of experimental work and empirical research in the subject field.

The subject of this article is regulatory influence of a persons sphere of mental images on the formation of individual attitude to emigration. Mental image sphere is considered to be a multidimensional dynamical system of secondary mental images. Image representation may evoke emotions of different intensity and content as well as induce different actions and behavioral activity.

Such sources of situational sense formation of emigratory intention as motives, spiritual values, significant experience related to perception of various fairy-tale and mythological images of the local culture; stable individual methods of sense regulation in difficult situations of life are considered. The results of our empirical study of sense formation factors of the emigratory intention of students in the modern cultural and historical situation are presented.

The article focuses on a level of ethnic integration of an image
sphere of a potential immigrant personality. The concept of an
«image sphere» is interpreted as a determinate multidimensional
dynamic system of secondary psychic images and as a system
that can fulfill integrating/differentiating function with/from an
actual ethnosphere. The author introduces a coefficient of ethnic
integration of an image sphere (Ie), the coefficient being determined
by calculating the ratio of an observed number of positively and

In this article the author's original system model of factors of individual commitment to a social community of a country has been introduced. The author suggests that the key factor of the given model is the social-psychological space of an individual represented by a person’s image sphere and meaningful sense forming feelings. The author also introduces the concept of the level of social integration as one of the important parameters of individual commitment to the social community and describes the image-association test and mathematical toolkit of its measurement.