No 2 (2013)

The scientific credence to the personality self-actualization and self-discipline correlation is given in the article. Within the frame of a system-defined research, different individually-typological peculiarities of self-discipline are highlighted and characterized. Their comparative analysis with the personality self-actualization is conducted.

This article presents the results of the research of the peculiarities and temperament structure as a psychophysiological basis of the development of military university students' personality features.

The article describes the results of studying the value orientations of the Russians living in a typical Central Russian region, i. e. the Kostroma region.

The article is devoted to studying the characteristics of adaptation to the new socio-cultural environment in connection with a long-acting stressful situation caused by the military and political events occurring in the homeland. It analyzes the activity-passivity specifics of the Arabic young men and women in the process of cross-cultural adaptation, as well as the display of aggressiveness as a confrontational defensive reaction in the adaptation of Arabic students studying in the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.

The conceptual notions about the essence of organization and organizational relations in the aspects of the theoretical and phenomenological approaches, objective and subjective context of a person’s self-determination in organization are analyzed in the article. The historical analysis of the dynamics from the classical theories of organization to the phenomenological behavior of real psychological subjects in it is given.

A brief outline of four studies that investigated interrelations of cognitive and emotional regulation in collaboration between Departments of Psychology of the University of Cincinnati and Kazakh National University is presented in this article. The aim of the first research was to examine the role of EI in regulating the affective response to a potentially threatening video and relation to brain electrical activity. The second study, conducted at the University of Cincinnati, explored the role of emotion in the search for information relevant to decision-making. The third study was devoted to the evaluating the sensitivity of a range of EEG indexes of engagement to time-on-task effects and to workload manipulation (cueing) during vigilance task performance. The fourth research was based on Posner’s theory of executive control and Matthews’ theory of task engagement. Results of empirical studies has theoretical meaning in understanding selfregulation and practical value in different fields of applied psychology.

The analysis of the survey of the representatives of the Russian higher schools on the problems of the international educational cooperation and the participation in the international academic mobility is submitted in the article.

In the article the problem of forming an interest in learning in students through the extracurricular activity is considered; the importance of the extracurricular activity as a factor of the development of the interest in educationally-cognitive activity in the college students with poor academic performance is revealed; the conditions providing the efficiency of using the extracurricular activity for the stimulation of the interest in learning in students with poor academic performance are accentuated.