№ 6/2008 (eng)

 PSYCHOSEMIOTIC PROCEDURE FOR VERBAL CREATIVITY DIAGNOSTICS 

I. M. Kishtimova  

PhD, doctorant of Irkutsk State Pedagogical University

Procedure of verbal creativity diagnostics by means of texts’ psychosemiotic analysis is described and based theoretically. The results of psychometric verification are given.

Key words: verbal creativity, text, psychosemiotic analysis, personal meaning, semantics, syntax.

PECULIARITIES OF PARENTAL FAMILY IN SENIOR PUPILS WITH DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF SELF-EVALUATION AND LEVEL OF ASPIRATION

K. R. Sidorov

PhD, assistant professor, general psychology chair, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk

Peculiarities of families bringin up teen-agers with harmonious and disharmonious combination of self-appraisal and pretension have been compared. Differences in such indices as: education of parents, parental expectations and requirements towards the child, upbringing style, attitude toward the child and emotiomal closeness with him/her are discribed.

Key words: self-appraisal, pretension level, correspondence of self-appraisal and pretension level, family specificity.

PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TERRORIST ACT: EXPERIENCE OF BESLAN

G. U. Soldatova*, L. A. Chaiguerova **, V. N. Shlyapnikov***

* Sc.D. (psychology), professor, psychological department, MSU after M.V. Lomonosov

**PhD, researcher and consultant, Y.P.Conseils and Recherches Montreal, Canada

***PhD, psychological department of SOU “Academy of social management”, Moscow region

The main goal of conducted in Beslan research was to study the influence of undergone by its citizens terrorist act on their mental state a year after extremal situation. The main hypothesis was that extremal situation of such a scale influenced not only on the people in the center of the event but  on other groups of people as well. Three groups of children (175 pers.) and adults (107 pers.): former hostages, those who had lost near relations and citizens who didn’t deal with the events directly took part in the study. Analizing mental state of the participants of the study we based on the results of questionnaires, analysis of individual  cases and analysis of social situation. The study revealed psychological problems which differed in the degree of heaviness and in the form of passing according to the level of involving into the event.

Key words: extremal situation, terrorist act, psychoemotional state, mental health, basic convictions.

PSYCHOLOGY IN MODERN SOCIETY

A. V. Jurevich

Sc.D. (psychology), professor, deputy derector, Psychological Institute of RAS, Moscow

The author considers that self-reflexion of psychology has reduced mainly to methodological reflexion and not to the development of psychological knowledge.At the same time the analysis of present situation in psychological community as well as its interrelations with society are the issue of the day and these should become the object of sociology of psychology. The author summarizes the main tendencies in the development of world and domestic psychological community and interrelations between psychological science and practice in the present-day Russian society. He makes it clear that psychological culture of our society is a “closed” one and psychology occupies an unpretentious place in comparison with other sociohumanitarian sciences, which is inconsistent with its possibilities and ambitions

Key words: psychology, society, psychological community, sociology of psychology, psychological science and practice, modern tendencies, psychological culture.

HUMOR RECOGNITION DISTURBANCE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS

E. M. Ivanova*, C. N. Enikolopov**, O. V. Mitina***

*PhD, Moscow StateUuniversity after M.V. Lomonosov, Moscow 

**PhD, head of clinical psychology department,  NCPH of PMAS, Moscow

***PhD, leading research assistant, psychological department of Moscow StateUniversity after M.V. Lomonosov, Moscow

The hypothesis of decrease in capability for humor recognition in schizophrenia patients was verifyied. Male patients with different forms of schizophrenia  and contrast group (aging 17–32, 101 persons in all) were the sample. The procedure of singling humorous phrases out and procedures of standart pathopsychological examining were used. The conclusion that in patients with shift-like progredient schizophrenia the ability for humor recognition decreases but in patients with weak schizophrenia and affective disorders it remains safe.

Key words: humor perception, recognition of humor, schizophrenia.

VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN AS MORAL CHOICE’S DETERMINANTS

F. G. Asadullina*, D. V. Malugin**

* PhD, assistant professor of psychology chair, MPSU, Moscow

**PhD, analyst, department of marketing researches, OSC “UK RBI”, Moscow

The study of factors determining personality moral choice is given. Correletions between moral dilemmas solving, gender and personality’s value orientations are analysed. It is fixed that moral choice depends on value orientations, and gender as well.

Key words: moral choice, moral dilemmas, moral conflict, moral values, value orientations.

SUBJECTIVE ECONOMACAL WELL-BEING: STRUCTURE-AND-LEVEL ORGANISATION

V. A. Hatchenko

PhD, head of  human being’s complex study, psychology and pedagogics department, Russian  Humanitarian and Scientific Fund, Moscow

Structure-and-level approach to well-being psychology study is described in the article. Subjective well-being (SWB) is revealed as polyphenomenological formation the essence and specificity of which are determined by the organization of its structural components. Such data concerning regularities of SWB’s level organisation as: not reducing of SWB level to additive totality of forming patr of it components; determination  of SWB level by the effects of system integration of its components; the existence of “general” and “specific” factors in the SWB structure are presented.

Key words: subjective well-being, structure and level of SWB, actual subjective well-being, structure-and-level conception.

Modern studies of fundamental and applied problems of professional activity psychology. Part II

V. A. Bodrov

Honoured worker of science and engineering of RF, M.D., professor, leading research assistant of Psychological Institute of PAS, Moscow  

Materials of a number of domestic studies of late 20-30 years in the sphere of psychology of labour, engineering psychology and ergonomics are summarized; their methodological and theoretical grounds are determined.

Key words: engineering psychology, ergonomics, professional activity, subject of labour, efficacy and reliability, capacity for work.

FACTORS OF DEVIANT ADOLESCENTS’ RESILIENCE

A. I. Laktionova*, A. V. Makhnach**

* junior research assistant, Psychological Institute of RAS, Moscow

** PhD, senior research assistant, the same place

The necessity of styding resilience as individual man’s ability to manage his own resources is demonstrated. The results of elaborated in the framework of International Project on Resilience questionnaire for reliance evaluation in children and adolescents approbation on Russian sample are presented. Such factors of resilience of deviant children and adolescents predetermining their social adaptation as “Personal characteristics”, “Attitudes”, “Subculture”, “Society” and “Country” are allotted.

Key words: resilience, factors of resilience, risk factors, questionnaire for reliance evaluation in children and adolescents, deviant adolescents.

A RUSSIAN ADAPTATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE (ECBQ) FOR MEASURING TEMPERAMENT

A. V. Kolmagorova*, H. R. Slobodskaya**, M. A. Gartstein***

* Research Scientist, State Research Institute of Physiology, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk;

e-mail: A.V.Kolmagorova@physiol.ru

** DSc., Research Scientist, State Research Institute of Physiology, , Novosibirsk;

е-mail: hslob@physiol.ru

*** PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology Washington State University, Pullman, USA;

е-mail: gartstma@mail.wsu.edu

The paper presents validation of the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire (ECBQ) for measuring temperament. Adequate reliability for 18 ECBQ scales was demonstrated in a sample of 256 toddlers between the ages of 16 and 37 months. Attention Shifting, Cuddliness, Low-intensity Pleasure, Perceptual Sensitivity, and Sociability were the highest between 30 and 37 months of age. Ratings for Attention Focusing and Positive Anticipation increased from 16 to 37 months of age. The analysis of the higher-order structure of early temperament confirmed the three factor model. Negative Affect, Surgency/Extraversion, Effortful Control factors were similar across countries. The associations between temperament and behavior problems support the importance of individual differences in shaping development pathways toward adjustment or deviant outcomes.

Key words: temperament, early childhood, second-order structure, parent questionnaires, behaviour problems.