ГЕРМЕТИЧНОСТЬ

The research represents a personal identity «self-aspects» factorial structure of American respondents. The basis for a questionnaire offered to respondents is constituted by Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure by J. Phinney. Degree of the defined factors’ influence on ethno-cultural identity has been detected.

The research reveals certain social psychological and cross-cultural psychological criteria on the basis of which a reference towards minorities as a definite social group may be performed in regards to the labour migration and ethnic migrants adaptation phenomena.