Psychology

The present article proves the relevance of studying the problem of involvement and self-involvement in criminal behavior in the context of evolutionary psychology. It gives an overview of original materials of foreign researches about the problem of involvement of a person into criminal activity. The article uncovers social and psychological mechanisms of criminal behavior. The reasons and types of separate kinds of crime are described.

The subject of this research is the difficulty in communicating child. The purpose of the study is identification of the functional nature of difficulties of communication. This paper presents the author’s definition of difficulty communicating, reveals its subjective and objective criteria, and reflects the role of communication difficulties in the personal development of child.

Results of the empirical study are presented. Scientific research is directed on studying of subjective estimation of own visual image, presented in photos, and also connections of characteristics of an estimated image with personal qualities and features of the self-relation.

The subject areas of the article scientific materials are the functional characteristics of the value and motivation of individual adolescents and youth with deviant behavior. Identification of these characteristics is the purpose of a study carried out by the author. The empirical research tools are the methods of «Diagnostics system of value orientations of personality» by E. B. Fantalova and «Polimotivational trends in diagnostics of ego-conception of personality» by S. M. Petrova.

To characterize psychological processes occurred while understanding and remembering a text, the conception of empirical logic as it is understood by N. A. Vasiliev can be applied. The analysis of the metacognition procedure, conducted using the models of the training texts, has shown that certain phenomenological manifestations are characteristic for expansion and deepening as the main cognitive strategies.

Perceptions of health and illness are basic to human consciousness, as in health situation and in situation of the disease. Identifying specificity concepts of healthy and sick person in a situation of severe stigmatizing disease is to aid understanding and clarify the mechanism of selecting adaptation strategies. The study found that for patients with tuberculosis express ideas about health related to health as the lost value.

In the article the problem of motivational influence of high school students on their readiness for training in higher education institute is considered. The results of the study of professional motives of high school students, their emotional attitude to the process of teaching are described. The author gives the structure of motivation of educational activity which helps to orient in the question of differentiation of the motives of teaching of high school students.

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 subject areas of the article are valuable formations of university students as personal resources of coping behavior in difficult situations of social interaction. Interrelationship of these mental formations of personality is the purpose of the study, carried out by the author. Empirical research tools were the methods of diagnostics system of value orientations personal by E. B. Fantalova and coping test by R. Lazarus.

In the article described materials of experimental-psychological research based on abilities children of preschool years to recognize emotions. The described features and differences recognitions of emotions in the perceptions different types of incentives: picture story and expression emotions other people. Shows the dependence of successful emotion recognition and successful expression emotional state children.