No 3 (2013)

The research is focused on the environmental component of the information personality development, the basic foundation for defining the content of the process (Personality — Environment — Activity System); the Internet as an environmental phenomenon for the man and as an information and educational environment. In their theoretical argumentation the authors arrive at the essential structural and functional characteristics of a hypothetical construct, i. e. information personality . The authors also give the key theoretical grounds reflecting the aspects of the development of the information personality in the Internet environment and discuss the outcomes of their theoretical and empirical studies of the phenomenon.

The problem of revealing the individually-typical features of persistence within the framework of the system-functional approach is discussed in the article. The four basic types of the persistence of students are described. A special attention is given to the comparative research of the said types and the specificity of the temperament which allows defining their psychological characteristics, and also elaborates on the possibility of the psychological correction work with the representatives of each of the types.

In the article the results of the empirical research of the structure and content of age self-schemas of teenagers are presented. The results show that the basic components of the age self-schemas are generalized ideas about the age. They include the relations with the opposite sex, their appearance and plans for the future. The leading tendency of the age self-schemas is to build a life perspective. The relationship between the force of the age schematic processing and the subjective age is proved.

The results of the empirical research carried out on the sample of the experts in marketing from China are discussed in the article. The age aspects of the professional self-realization of the respondents are analyzed. The research was carried out within the framework of the polysystem concept of the personality self-realization.

In recent years, psychologists, as well as other mental health and allied health professionals, have rediscovered the potential value of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for health and well-being. One such CAM modality is massage therapy. This article examines the evidence for the value of applications of massage therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma, and related conditions, including anxiety.

This article reviews the current models of the voter behavior and proves the need in creating a new overarching conceptual framework, finding the integral social-psychological factor of the voter decision making. The public opinion is regarded as such a factor. The article presents the findings of the latest psychological research, devoted to the analysis of the connection between the different components of public opinion and electoral behavior.

The essence of education for sustainable development (ESD) has been disclosed in this article. The definition of ESD has been formulated. The key approaches to the formation of the ESD curriculum have been designated. The criteria for selecting the content of ESD have been proposed. The feasibility of applying the competency based approach has been shown.

This article discloses the modern approaches to schoolchildren up-bringing which enrich the practical work at school proceeding from the variety of educational systems, different up-bringing programmes in the school activity, organizing social projects, providing the conditions for the creative activity of children and adults and so on.

The article analyses the psychological phenomenon of the attitude to the computer, the results of an empirical study of the attitude of students to information and computer learning environments.

The theme of this article is the compliance of the existing model of reading to the requirements of the FGOS OOO (FSES CGE) standard. The promising model of reading, which supposes an interactive dialogue between the author and the reader and the topical questions of the teaching of literature and psychology of reading are also discussed in this article. The author describes a system of dialogue tasks in literature classes in the 7th grade and gives the most successful student's work as an example of educational feedback in the system “author-reader”.