ЭТНОИНТЕГРИРУЮЩАЯ ФУНКЦИЯ

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.

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