Abstract: The relevance of this topic is due to the need to maintain and develop the potential of students from the indigenous peoples of the North (IPN) in a rapidly changing world of digital technologies and nanosystems. Resilience, as a psychological characteristic, allows students to cope with difficulties and adapt to changes. Studying the relationship between resilience and professional orientation can provide a basis for developing effective support programs aimed at successful socialization and professional development of students from the IPN. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the predictive role of professional orientation in students from the IPN. The study aims to identify how resilience components and event experiences can serve as a predictor of successful career orientation and choice.The following methods were used: The Resilience Test (S. Maddi, D. Leontiev) was used to assess an individual's ability to cope with stressful situations and adapt to changes. The author's questionnaire included several blocks of questions (general information about the respondents; future plans to identify goals and expectations; awareness of the world of professions and educational trajectories; the richness of life events, including academic and extracurricular activities; current attitudes towards education; subject interests; key moments (academic, personal, and social); and areas of interest. Data processing was carried out using the IBM SPSS Statistics 23.00 software package. A high level of resilience, active participation of schoolchildren in planning their lives, and reflection on significant events have a positive impact on their desire to analyze future trajectories, including professional self-determination. Research on this issue can significantly enhance the psychological and pedagogical support for Indigenous students, improving their adaptation and professional orientation in modern conditions.

Keywords: resilience, engagement, risk-taking, control, professional orientation, indigenous peoples, chronotope, significant events, event experiences, and variance analysis

Abstract: The question of ethnic identity remains relevant for the research community. Contemporary studies focus on examining the ethnic identity of individuals, as well as identifying cultural and psychological differences and changes in identity throughout a person's life. This article presents the results of an empirical study on the structure of ethnic identity among adolescents from Moscow, Stavropol (Russia), and Ismailly (Azerbaijan). The subject of the study is the cultural and psychological differences in the structure of ethnic identity among modern adolescents included in different social environments. The aim of the article is to theoretically substantiate and empirically reveal the cultural and psychological differences in the structure of ethnic identity among contemporary adolescents living in different regions of Russia and in Azerbaijan. The object of the study is the structure of personal ethnic identity. Research methods: theoretical analysis, observation, formative experiment, psychodiagnostic methods and questionnaires, mathematical methods: two-way analysis of variance, Student's t-tests, Pearson's chi-square test. The empirical base of the research includes 295 adolescents (students in grades 6-8): 121 adolescents from Moscow, 45 adolescents from Stavropol, and 129 adolescents from Ismailly. The significant scientific novelty of this study lies in determining the cultural differences in the structure of personal ethnic identity as influenced by the cultural environment, identifying both common (characteristic of all groups) and specific (characteristic of a particular group) relationships. Conclusions: It has been confirmed that the cultural environment surrounding an adolescent significantly influences the indicators of personal ethnic identity: among adolescents from the ethnically diverse environments of Moscow and Stavropol, a positive type of ethnic identity predominates, which is substantively reflected in the behavioral component. Among adolescents from Ismailly, there is a pronounced ethno-egoism, ethno-isolationism, and ethno-fanaticism, alongside a confirmed high level of anxiety and social distancing, which also relate to the indicators of the behavioral component. The level of suspicion among adolescents from Ismailly, as manifested in the behavioral component of personal ethnic identity, is significantly higher than that of adolescents from the cultural environments of Moscow and Stavropol. The area of application of the research results: possible for the development of educational and social programs aimed at fostering constructive interethnic interaction.

Keywords: ethnic identity, cultural and psychological differences, adolescents, cognitive component, affective component, behavioral component, interethnic relations, integration, social environment, historical context

Abstract: The article presents a brief theoretical analysis of the concepts of “identity” and “value orientations”, and provides the results of an empirical study on the problem of identity and value orientations of student youth. The purpose of the article is to present the results of a study of the relationship between the components of identity and value orientations of student youth in the context of cross-cultural analysis. The components of identity and value orientations in samples of Russian and Buryat respondents were studied. Correlations between identity and value orientations have been identified. Participants. 100 Russian and 100 Buryat university students. 200 persons in total. Methods (tools): S. Schwartz’s value questionnaire, identity questionnaire in 16 categories (M.S. Yanitsky et al., 2018), mathematical and statistical processing using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient rs. The results of the study showed that there are similarities and differences in the correlations of the structure of value orientations of the subjects of the represented ethnocultural groups at two levels (normative ideals and individual priorities). The results obtained showed that the identity and value orientations of students in each group have their own characteristics. But no unique national characteristics were found among representatives of Russian and Buryat youth. Correlation analysis revealed that the hierarchy of values of students from both cultures contains values such as conformity, kindness, stimulation, independence, hedonism, and achievement. Negative correlations were identified between the identity components “Citizen of one’s country”, “Follower of one’s religion”, “Resident of a given city” with the value orientations “Kindness”, “Stimulation”, “Traditions”, “Independence”, “Safety”, “Power”, "Achievements".

Keywords: identity, value orientations, values, student youth, Russians, Buryats, similarities and differences, correlation constellations, ethnocultural groups, culture

Abstract: The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the concepts of "citizenship", "patriotism", "civic-patriotic education", taking into account the nature of the Belarusian students, defines the features of the formation of such vital values and priorities as comprehension, development of moral qualities; reliance on human rights; inner freedom of the individual; love for the Motherland; striving for peace and development; self-esteem. Modern Belarusian society is in the process of reforming many areas of public life, and the changes that are taking place bring to the fore qualitatively new tasks for the further development of an economically developed and socially oriented state. Their solution requires the formation of citizens, especially young people, who have the future of the country, an active life position, high moral and psychological qualities, among which civic responsibility to society and patriotism occupy an important place. The conducted research made it possible to determine that civil-patriotic education is of steady interest to 61.8% of the study participants, 82.5% of the target group at the Masherov State University have a stable idea of civil-patriotic education and about 62.1% of the target group identify criteria of civil culture of the individual, taking into account the social policy of the state, the civic formation of Belarusians.

Keywords: young people, citizenship, civic identity, civic culture, patriotism, education, patriotic education, culture, morality, patriotic feelings

Abstract: This article discusses the peculiarities of ethnic and religious identity of the Orthodox Sakha – Yakuts, as well as self-categorization within the system “familiar – alien”. The subject of this research is the peculiarities of self-categorization of the Orthodox Sakha – Yakuts. Leaning on theoretical analysis of the previous works, an assumption is made that as a criterial attribute at the core of self-categorization of the Orthodox Yakuts the ethnic identity would supersede the religious. The author examines the self-categorization processes among minorities, represented by the Orthodox Sakha – Yakuts , since they hold such position in their ethnic and confessional group. The article used the methodology of E. Bogardus in modification of L. G. Pochebut; peculiarities of social identity of the Orthodox Sakha – Yakuts were assessed using the test of Manfred Kuhn and Thomas McPartland “Who Am I?” Determination within the social representations of the Orthodox Yakuts of the system of objective differentiation criteria of “familiar – alien” was conducted on the basis of modified version of semantic differential and method of arbitrary associations. For determination of citerial structure of self-categorization was used factor analysis through extraction of key components. The main conclusion consists in the high index of ethnic tolerance among the Orthodox Sakha-Yakuts with regards to representatives of other ethnoses, their acceptance as the colleagues, and desire to establish business relationship. The respondents have augmented understanding of the concept “us”, demonstrating clear religious and ethnic identity. The author describes the categorial structure of self-categorization of the Orthodox Sakha – Yakuts comprised of the three factors: “quality of relationship with others”, “live activeness”, and “self-confidence”.

Keywords: social identity, religious identity, self categorization, ethnic identity, identity, criteria structure, self-awareness, own, alien, Orthodox

Abstract: This study is devoted to the problem of differences in metaphorical ideas about people with a different ethnocultural appearance as representations of various ethnic “world images”. The purpose of the study was to conduct a comparative analysis of the metaphors of "friendly" and "alien" people with different ethnocultural appearance in persons with a similar ethnocultural appearance. The subject of the research was the metaphors of "friendly" and "alien" people with a "Slavic", "Caucasian" and "Asian" appearance in persons with a "Slavic" appearance. The following methods were used: content analysis of metaphors, correlation analysis. The method developed by the author for the study of the metaphors of "friendly" and "alien" people with different ethnocultural appearance is applied. It was first established that the metaphorical images of “alien” people and “enemies” with an “Asian” appearance are more positive than the metaphorical images of “alien” people and “enemies” with a “Caucasian” appearance. Respondents perceive “friendly” people with “Caucasian” appearance as having more similarity with them than “their” people with “Asian” appearance. It was concluded that the images of "friendly" people with different ethnocultural appearance in the subjective perception may have a similar structure, may be mediated by the same criteria for categorization of surrounding people in the "own" continuum - "alien", and the images of "alien" people with different ethnocultural appearance can be structurally different. Stereotypical metaphors of communication partners with different appearance indicate the impact of ethnocultural codes on ideas about other people from different ethnocultural groups.The results of the research can be applied in applied social psychology of conflict and discrimination.

Keywords: metaphors, friends, aliens, ethnocultural external appearance, external appearance, ethnolookism, Slave external appearance, Caucasian external appearance, Asian external appearance, ethnic image of the world

Abstract: In the modern world, we are constantly confronted with situations in which people are discriminated because of their appearance. One of the forms of discrimination is ethnolookism when the evaluation of ethnocultural identity is based on an assessment of the external appearance, and this evaluation results in a certain attitude, discriminatory or tolerant. In her article Pogontseva outlines the problem of attitudes toward women in connection with ethno-religious characteristics of their appearance for example, hijab (an Islamic handkerchief covering hair and neck). The research involved 807 people (371 men and 436 women) aged 18-55 years old (the average age was 25 years) living in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The author has used her own questionnaire consisting of an incentive material (2 sets of photographs of 5 girls, in one case it is a portrait, in full-face, taken with natural make-up, the second set - the same girls, but in black hijabs). Respondents were asked to evaluate their attitude to the girls on the photos, on a scale from friendly to hostile, and to assess the degree of acceptance of the discriminatory behavior of the Other on the basis of the girl's appearance in the photograph. Based on the results, it can be said that the hostility towards the girl in the hijab is based only on the design of their appearance. It can be also noted that while the discriminatory behavior of the Other is directed at the girl in the hijab, respondents tend to condemn this behavior less than when the discriminatory attitude is directed at the girl without the hijab. Thus, the author emphasizes that a trigger of ethnolookism can be just a cover for a head or other symbols of different cultures.

Keywords: discrimination, discrinination behavior, hijab, appearance, lookism, ethnolookism, attitude, adoption of discriminatory behavior, racism, islam

Abstract: The article provides an overview of foreign and domestic socio-psychological studies of the civil (national) identity in the period from 2007 to 2016. To do this, the author selected Web of Science and RISC cited publications on the subject which allowed to see the most relevant aspects thereof. Researches were grouped according to the main issues raised in these issues: the concept of civic identity as one of the social identities, factors affecting the national identity, relationship of civic identity and a variety of plants, intra-identification and national prejudices, loss of national identity, nationalism and patriotism (in-group identity and attitude to the outgroup). Such selection of articles and their analysis have provided an understanding of how to represent the civil identity of contemporary researchers and how this phenomenon is studied.

Keywords: civil identity, national identity, nationalism, patriotism, social identity, in-group identification, national prejudices, in-group identity, attitudes towards out-group, out-group aggression

Abstract: The article presents results of the empirical social-psychological research. 83 Russian second- and third-year elementary school students of Smolensk (47 girls and 36 boys) aged from 7 to 9 participated in the research. The subject of the research is the contents and emotional predictors of elementary school students' preceptions of their and others' ethnic groups. Ethnic groups they represented included Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian. Emotional predictors included affective components of ethnic identity of elementary school students as well as their level of satisfaction with different sides of their own life. Empirical data were collected through survey (interviewing) of elementary school students. Each respondent was interviewed individually. The authors of the article analyze data obtained using the modified method of studing racial and ethnic attitudes offered by Doyle and Aboud (adapted by N. Sheskina for Russian elementary school students), modified method of diagnosing the level of social frustration by L. Wasserman and analyzing responses of children to the questions aimed at defining the affective component of their ethnic identity. These data were processed by using Statistica 7.0 program, methods of descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U-test, Fisher's angular transformation (φ*-criterion), regression analysis (Forward stepwise method). As a result of the empirical research, the majority of elementary school students demonstrate a positive ethnic affective identification and differentiation and tendency to be more positive about their own ethnic group compared to others. The author registered a high subjective importance of ethnicity for elementary school students disregarding their positive or negative affective attitude towards members of their ethnic group. The authors discover that the emotional predictor of how elementary school students preceive their or others' ethnic groups is their subjective sense of well-being in the spheres related to a child's school life and his or her success. The factor that is especially important in the formation of a positive attitude to their and others' ethnic groups is the level of satisfaction of elementary school students with the relations they have with their classmates. The results of the research underline the important role of the elementary school age in the process of ethnic identity formation and draw our attention to targets of ethnic intolerance prevention and correction of children's ethnic perceptions. The results also prove a close connection between child's subjective sense of well-benig and his or her attitude towards their and others' ethnic groups. 

Keywords: personal satisfaction, subjective well-being, emotional predictors, elementary school age, components of ethnic identity, ethnic differentiation, ethnic identification, ethnic groups, ethnic perceptions, ethnic identity

Abstract: The article deals with one of the most pressing issues of modern gender psychology - the changing gender identity of the youth. The authors of the article present the results of the study on the gender identity of modern youth from the Northern areas of the Far Eastern district of the Russian Federation and adherence to gender stereotypes as well as the comparative analysis of the relationship between personality traits and a proposed gender-based portrait of the same gender person. The research is based on the model offered by S. Bam. The results of the research have shown that there is a shift in gender roles of today's youth. In the portrait of modern females the girls indicate masculine traits. This indicates the formation of a new strategy of women's behaviour in Russian society - the equation with men in psychological terms. Men along with masculinity traits also indicate femininity traits which indicates the decline in their level of internal aggression. Thus, the shift of gender roles occurs in both gender directions. It is also worth noting that a certain class of people with an androgynous behavioural style has been defined by the authors which indicates a "transitional" stage in the shift of gender attitudes. The concentration of more than half of the respondents in the field of androgyny opens new perspectives for further research in this area of scientific knowledge

Keywords: gender, gender typing, gender stereotypes, gender identity, androgyny, femininity, masculinity, North, ethnos, traditional culture