No 4 (2008)

The article considers the factors that have generated the psychological characteristics of the Chinese and their psychological features, including the peculiarities of value orientations of the Chinese ethnos, the attitude of the Chinese to the various aspects of life, their general psychological features.

The acmeological approach as a core basis of the development of ecological awareness of the future experts is considered in the article, and in this connection the acmeological principles, determinants and technologies of the specified process are disclosed.

The article discloses the general and specific features of the psychology of the political, business and cultural-intellectual elites, reflecting the basic structural components of the psychological concept of elites.

The approaches revealing the psychological essence of personality are presented in the article. Within the framework of consideration of the given approaches the study of the problem of psychology of confidence is traced through. The system approach to the investigation of confidence of the personality is separately analyzed, and the problematics connected with the psychological structure of this trait is regarded.

The correlation of the structure of the responsibility of African and Latin American students is analyzed in the article, disclosing the acute specifics of the psychological structure of the responsibility of the ethnic groups under consideration. It is revealed in the article, that the specifics of quantitative displays of the responsibility is shown most vividly in the cognitive and productive components of the structure, and also in the public values, such as socio-centricity, lack of urgency, sthenicity, internality, operational difficulties. The quantitative analysis of the responsibility of African and Latin American students shows, that the variables have the specificity both in the contansive, and in instrumental aspects. It is possible to believe, that the revealed distinctions are caused by the ethno-psychological features.

Psychological and pedagogical principles, methods and conditions of the development of spiritual-moral self-actualization of a person from a conventional stage in secular or religious-dogmatic forms to a post-conventional stage - the religious-humanistic form of spiritual-moral self-actualization of a person are considered in the article. The results of long-comparative researches of the features and general laws of the formation of spiritual-moral self-actualization of the personality of students in the framework of comprehensive education and in the innovative pedagogical system including the subjects aimed at developing spiritual-moral personality of the rising generation are submitted.