Psychology

In this article the author's original system model of factors of individual commitment to a social community of a country has been introduced. The author suggests that the key factor of the given model is the social-psychological space of an individual represented by a person’s image sphere and meaningful sense forming feelings. The author also introduces the concept of the level of social integration as one of the important parameters of individual commitment to the social community and describes the image-association test and mathematical toolkit of its measurement.

The article reviews the research results of correlation between emotional intelligence and tolerance for uncertainty in convicts with comorbid pathology (HIV and TB). The following methods were used: The Questionnaire on Emotional Intelligence EmIn (D. V. Lyusin), The New Questionnaire of Tolerance for Uncertainty (T. V. Kornilova). Conclusion: HIV-infected convicts with TB significantly differ from the control group in understanding emotions and interpersonal emotional intelligence.

The cognitive basis of the political communication is the alteration of the learning activity pattern in the process of a political text perception. The main factor of the alteration is the cognitive strategies drift. The drift takes place when the balance of the expansion strategy and the deepening strategy in the understanding process of the communication content changes.

The article analyzes adaptive strategies of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in terms of the author’s «disease situation» concept. The identified strategies are considered as aspects of the «disease situation» subjective element. The author examines the model of coping strategies, which is specific for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, as a system of coping strategies contradictory in its functions, connected with the semantic refocusing of a person and the rejection of a new social identity of the disabled person.

The article is dedicated to the consideration of personality vital script as a socio-psychological phenomenon that is associated with the ability of life planning, designing and structuring. The author compares the approaches of national and foreign authors to the determination of the individual life script and its structural components. The basic directions of contemporary native and foreign researches of life script are analyses in the article. Particular attention is paid to the awareness of its formation and implementation in the process of life.

The article is focused on the relationship between the structure of psychological time and the structure of an individual. The idea of the relativity of time, typical for the science in the twentieth century, is analyzed and a differentiated study of psychological time and mental age of the various structural elements of personality is justified . The author emphasizes the need for a systematic approach in both theoretical and empirical studies of psychological time of the individual. Possible structure of the functional dynamics of psychological time of an individual is discussed.