Psychology

The research suggests an attempt to study social creativity as complex
characteristic of personality. The characteristic fosters finding
original and constructive decisions in situations of interpersonal interaction.
The unity of motivational, communicative, intellectual and
existential parameters can be found out in the structure of interrelated
elements of social creativity.

The article analyzes various classifications of toys suggested by home
and foreign psychologists, psychotherapists and pedagogues. The
author identifies reasons of classifying, enumerates toys not included
into psychological classifications.

The article considers psychic self-direction of behavior, learning and professional activity of
Humanities University students from the perspective of systematic and structural approach.
A psychological model of self-direction has been provided. Self-adjustment components as well
as personality characteristics comprising self-direction of young student behavior and activities at
different stages of their studies have been considered.

The paper treats the problem of subjective well-being as conditioned by the valuable and semantic formations of a person in his/her professional self-determination.

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.

Factor analysis appeared in the framework of resolving psychological problems has become popular in many sciences with statistical representation of experimental data. The complexity and ambiguity of its conceptual approaches make its use difficult, especially for young scientists. We have posed a task to clarify special features of difficult points in factor analysis as much as possible without any loss of mathematical accuracy.

The paper is devoted to the subjective significance of the family and returning the basic spiritual values and traditions to it in the modern Russian society. An original cultural-psychological typology of the modern Russian family, based on own professional experience in family consulting, is presented. The increasing spirituality is regarded as a factor of family integration and human harmony. 

The results of our psychological analysis and theoretical reflections of different conceptions and paradigms which deal with the category of situation are presented. Four primary approaches are resolved, namely: stimulus, eventually-biographical, person-centric, and subject-object ones. Each approach represents the corresponding type of situation, namely: an actual situation, a life event, a subjective situation, and a psychological situation. The application of any approach is determined by the purposes and tasks of a specific research.

The paper discusses the fundamental principles of the author’s approach to social-psychological analysis of collective and individual models of the world. The role and significance of four universal characteristics of the world expressed through the notions of randomness (chaos), antagonisticness, mechanisticness, and organismicness and all the relations and processes in the world that determine the evolution of the human society are considered.

The problem of vagrancy is discussed in its historical, sociological, and psychological aspects, primary stages of the social attitude to street children are resolved. Vagrancy is proposed to be considered as a result of the influence of several inequivalent external and internal factors. The processes of urbanization and globalization of our society, conflict situations in contacts with adults and coevals as well as the Russian social-economical crisis are analyzed as the external factors.