Features of Representatives of Russian Young Generation's self-attitude

• Published in: Procedia, social and behavioral sciences social and behavioral sciences, 2014-08, Vol.140, p.493-498
• Main Author: Sveshnikova, Natalia
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: personal identity; self-attitude; social identity; young generation
• ISSN: 1877-0428; 1877-0428
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.04.459

Modern social and cultural reality is perceived as a constant complication of the social world in its multitude and given incompleteness. It is highly important to understand leading tendencies in dynamics of the youth identity processes when you consider transformations of social reality as they define social and psychological peculiarities of the young generation. The youth is one of the most important capitals of the society. In our research we consider identification processes as psychological phenomena carrying the nature of sense. In the recent years concepts of sense constructs are widely developed in psychology, which strongly enriches identity researches. Sense is considered not only as a phenomenon of consciousness, but also as a phenomenon of unconsciousness. It is very likely that the major part of person's social identity's contents is outside its consciousness in the most cases and is actualized only when the person is faced with certain social objects and situations. When we study features of identity we start with a theoretical notion that proposes to understand identity as a dynamic attitude, as a certain self-attitude. In our research we present the analysis of representatives of Russian young generation's self-attitude based on detecting ordinary concepts about oneself and one's social and ethnical group. Psychosemantic procedures as well as projective drawings and questionnaires were used for the research.