No 3 (2012)

The article is devoted to the traditional, mass, elitological culture of personality. The peculiarities of the maturity of the elitilogical culture of the personality are revealed.

The analysis of various scientific approaches to the research of self-realization of the personality in the domestic and foreign science is submitted in the article.

The geometrical model of recognizing four-line diagrammatic representations, characterized by different relations of elements, has been constructed in the article. The averaged superthreshold estimations of the perceptive differences between the four-line configurations have been processed by means of the multidimensional scaling technique. The constructed space has been interpreted in terms of Sokolov and Izmailov's spherical model of differentiating stimuli. The characteristics of the derived model reflect the representation recognition mechanism based on categorical attributes.

The article considers the role of the absolute and relative income in determining the subjective economic well-being. It is shown that the relationship of the income to SEB is curvilinear with the increase of marginal utility for a higher income. At low income levels its effect on SEB is determined not by its absolute, but by its relative value based on the comparisons with the subjective standards of well-being.

In the article some results of empirical research of life meaning orientations of modern university students are presented.

The results of the empirical research of the value-meaning constructs of the personality in conflicting situations are presented in this article. It is shown that there are four groups of people using different kinds of value-meaning constructs of the personality in conflicting situations.

The article studies the identity mechanisms of a psychologist-to-be. In the article, the author analyzes personal reflection as one of the mechanisms of forming a psychologist's professional identity.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the results of the research of sociability and hardiness. The specific features of the implementation of sociability and hardiness in economy and psychology students are compared. The empirical data on the studied traits is presented.

The article presents the results of the research of expressiveness of the content-meaning and instrumental-style characteristics, analyses the correlations between the variables of the structure of military college students' responsibility.

The features of ratios between the motivational-meaningful characteristics of sociability of the Latin American and Russian students are analyzed in the article. The revealed distinctions in the ratios of the variables which determine the ethnopsychological specificity of sociability in the Latin American and Russian students are discussed.

This paper analyzes the psychological and pedagogical conditions of generating a health culture in high school students. One of them was a culture-centric approach, on the basis of which the stages and dynamics of the changes in personality traits, including the attitude to one's own health, and the model of generating a health culture in high school students were defined.

The development of modern informative and communicative technologies is reflected in the education system, providing the conditions of formation of the education of the new type meeting the requirements of the development and self-development of personality in the modern society. The influence of informative and communicative technologies on the motivation of self-education of students is revealed in the article.