No 1 (2013)

The article is devoted to the gender peculiarities of spirituality manifestation and activity in the students of the PFUR.

The article analyzes the data of an empirical study of professional work satisfaction and self-realization of the personality in teachers. The psychological features of self-realization in the teachers with different levels of satisfaction with their professional work are characterized.

The analysis of sociability of the Uighur nationality representatives is submitted in the article. The specific features of sociability as a personality property in the aspect of the ethnic background are revealed.

The psychological value of the Old Russian icons has not been fully apprehended up to now. The article considers the psychological concepts reflected in the Old Russian icons.

The article analyses and systematizes the results of numerous empirical studies in foreign social psychology, dedicated to the comparison of various forms of rivalry (competition, cooperation) in interpersonal and intergroup interaction. It emphasizes the significant specification, made by J.M. Rabbie, concerning the interdependence of interpersonal and intergroup rivalry interrelations, that “the discontinuity hypothesis” of J. Schopler & C. Insko can be seen as a special case of a more general reciprocal interdependence hypothesis.

The article introduces different approaches to the emotional intelligence (EI) definition and research, the main trends of the concept critique and proves the importance of the further research of the link between the emotional intelligence and workplace performance.

The article is focused on the issues related to the language representation in the native speaker’s mind. It reveals that there are no direct dependencies between the structural language maturity, its historical development, and the speakers’ need in its usage.

This article considers the poly-paradigmal approach to the educational arrangement, aimed at the intensification of students’ self-educational cognitive activity and its place in education; the structural components of the poly-paradigmal approach are also submitted in the paper.

The issues considered in the article are connected with the personality development in the conditions of deprivation. The main source of the risk for the personality development is the educational environment of the foster home centers. Consequently one of the main tasks for the state is to design the creative background providing an all-round development of each child.

The work is devoted to the adaptation of the children in the northeastern region of Russia to school. In the article the influence of the extreme environmental conditions on the health of the children living in the Magadan region, which is an additional factor influencing the success of the child’s adaptation to the changing conditions of life, is proven; the recommendations to optimize the process of adaptation that enhance the adaptive opportunities of first-graders are provided.

A brief review of the traditional 7 th International Conference “Personality in the Intercultural Space” that took place on 15—16 November 2012 at the Philological Department of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia is submitted in the publication.