No 2 (2014)

The article presents the study of subjective well-being correlations with such factors of intercultural communication, as ethnic identity, communicative tolerance, as well as some personality traits. Subjective well-being is positively related to ethnic identity and, ambiguously, to communicative tolerance. The main positive role in the intercultural communication is played by a person's satisfaction with the social support received, which is inversely related to some forms of extremist manifestations of ethnic identity and with many manifestations of intolerance. In contrast, satisfaction with daily activities, good self-reported health and mood stability are directly related to some forms of intolerance.

The article analyses the peculiarities of confidence and adaptability of Chinese students studying in the Russian University, and its ratio in the factorial structure.

The problem of modeling training sessions of health aerobic classes in international higher schools is quite topical. The proposed form of training helps to speed up the adaptive responses of foreign students in the new conditions of their life and the implementation of the goals of internationalization.

The article is devoted to gender identity as a factor of shyness and displays the results of the empirical studies of gender identity and shyness in the Serbian and Russian students.

The article addresses the results of the correlation analysis and joint factor analysis conducted to find correlations and links between persistence as a personal trait as seen in the system-functional approach developed by Alexander I. Krupnov and the traits of the Big Five model of personality.

The article is devoted to interpersonal relationships and their influence on the career development in the organization and work collective. The particular attention is given to identifying the factors and characteristics that affect the careers of employees in the organization, taking into account the features of the psychological features of the employees and their career goals and motivations.

The article presents the results of the empirical research of social representations of smoking abuse among smoking young people. The authors reveal gender differences in the representations of smokers and show the role of psychological factors in smoking abuse.

The article submits the results of the experimental research of the subjective discrimination of combined stimuli, characterized by the changes of the spectral composition of the radiation, light intensity and tilt angle of the object in the visual field. The received data were interpreted in terms of vector approach and modular conception of visual perception according to which the visual perception is carried out with the help of the similar type sensory modules of visual system detecting different characteristics of the stimuli. The result of the integration of the sensor modules is a multichannel neuron network, represented in the form of the multidimensional geometrical spherical space.