SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY OF STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION

Abstract

Summary. The study of socio-psychological features of psychological safety of students in the conditions of intercultural interaction is presented. Psychological security is understood as a state of consciousness in which close intercultural contacts are perceived as safe, referential, contributing to the satisfaction of the need for personal and confidential communication. Socio-psychological features of psychological safety of students in the conditions of intercultural interaction are considered as a system of personal factors contributing to and hindering it. The sample consisted of 324 students of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. 148 of them were Russian citizens; 176 were citizens of Uzbekistan. Studied: personality structure consisting of 5 integral personal properties according to L. Goldberg; socio-psychological characteristics (type of ethnic identity; indices of tolerance and authoritarianism, subjectivity, self-actualization, basic beliefs, mechanisms of psychological protection), as well as social distance with representatives of other ethnic groups. The characteristics of the groups turned out to be more similar than different. Intergroup differences were found in the levels of formation of the types of ethnic identity "ethno–egoism" and "ethno–isolationism" (their indicators are higher among students - Russian citizens); ethnic tolerance and the mechanism of psychological protection "compensation" (their indicators are significantly higher among students - citizens of Uzbekistan). It has been established that Uzbek students perceive Russian students as the closest ethnic group, but they themselves are not such for Russian students. Conflictogens are noted – socio-psychological personality traits that can cause conflicts: overexpressed in both groups such personal characteristics as a belief in self-worth, luck, the ability to control outgoing events and, at the same time, poorly developed positive ethnic identity.