Psychology

The advisability of the special socio-psychological knowledge which using in the investigation and judicial proceedings group crimes were shown in the article. The understanding of the subject of the judicial psychological examination of the criminal group was proposed. Also the main methodological principles underlying the forensic psychological research were highlighted there.

The correlation between social capital and relationships to money was discussed. We suggested that social capital may perform a regulatory function in the people’s relation to material resources, which may occur at the individual level in relation to money. It was found that social capital at the individual level, demonstrates a negative effect on the following groups of monetary attitudes: «retention», «power» «inadequacy», «security».

The article is devoted to the scientific basis for a unified social theory needed to explain the reasons, to predict the aftermath of the global systemic crisis and to develop the concept of social ideal of desired future. 

The article covers the results of the study on time perspective, personality traits and self-injurious behaviour of drug-addicted patients. Statistically high rates of depression, irritability and reactive aggression are distinguished; time perspective is characterized by hedonistic and fatalistic fixation on the present, negativistic evaluation of the past and uncertainty of the future; there is a high rate of self-injurious acts in the sample.

The article is devoted to the results of a comparative analysis of terminology used to describethe phenomenon of «burn-out» and modern empirical studies of this phenomenon among representatives of various professional groups. Emphasizes the need to study the dynamics of the structure of professional burnout in the process of professionalization in terms of sistemogenetic approach.

Author examines the space of Ancient Greek symposium, as including in itself the projective realities of the sympotic vase-painting, from the point of view of cognitive patterns underlying it.

This article is about the results of the research about external and internal factors (age, sex, geographic location, personal characteristics, features of value sphere and the level of breeding), which influence on the development of teenagers attitude to money. These factors were detected with the help of empirical study and there is a description of how money can shape the teenagers attitude to it.

The problem of social-psychological adaptation of a personality in the context of the overcoming difficult and stressful situations is considered in the article. The result of an analysis of socio-psychological characteristics of personality adapts and the basic coping-behaviour strategies of pupils of the higher forms and underclassmen. Interaction between the studied effects is established and the ways of an effective overcoming of the stressful situations are nominated.

The article is devoted to the motivation of social activity for students. Revealed differences in the motivational structure of the personality of young people, depending on the type of social activity.

The article is devoted to conducting a critical analysis of social and psychological works on the problem of envy. The purpose of this analysis is ordering and generalization of knowledge of its functions and appointment in the personal’s social life. Stimulating, affirming, protective, regulatory and controlling functions and the components of their offering are allocated to the article.