No 3 (2011)

The article presents the results of empirical research revealing the cultural specificity in the levels and combinations of various aspects of intercultural adaptation of foreign students from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Central Asia to Russia. Students from Central Asia and Latin America have the most harmonious style of intercultural adaptation. In their structure of adaptation their outlook plays the leading role. Socialization occurs at a deeper (intrapersonal) level. Chinese students have a controversial and least effective style of adaptation. Emotional intelligence plays the leading role in it. It's very important for the Chinese to have clear goals in life and confidence in their accessibility, but uncertainty in foreign cultural environment frustrates them.

The article describes the results of the research of coping styles and life meaning orientations of students from China, studying at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia and the He Bei United University of Tang Shan (China), in the process of overcoming the difficulties of adaptation to studying at University.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the results of research of adaptability and value orientations in students from Kazakhstan. The peculiarities of adaptability and value orientations of the first and fourth courses Kazakh students in their first and fourth years at university, living in Russia, are compared in the article.

The article is devoted to the study of confidence and sociability of students at different stages of social and psychological adaptation to higher school. The comparative analysis is carried out, the specifics of correlation and factor structures of confidence and sociability with indicators of adaptation in the first, second and third year students are disclosed.

The necessity of generalization of the theoretical facts for elaborating the methods for the diagnostics of the innovation readiness level is proved in the article. The results of the experimental research of the innovation readiness factors and the description of the scales of the method are presented.

The article deals with the basic theoretical concepts of tolerance, socio-psychological determinants of tolerance, fundamental and most widely spread in modern foreign psychology.

The article deals with the problems emerging in the process of translating A.I. Krupnov's Self-organization Blank Test into the Arabic and Mongolian languages.

The results of the empiric study confirming the existing distinctions between the personality traits in adolescents with a tendency to musical fanaticism and in those that don't belong to fans are represented in the article. The results of the research make it possible to work out psycho-correctional programmes and techniques.