Psychological mechanisms of interpersonal interaction of students in a multiethnic educational environment

Relevance. The modern world is following the path of globalization, supporting this process, modern Russian higher education is characterized by polyethnicity. The main goal defining this process is the formation of a healthy personality capable of creative self–development and exercising ethno-cultural and civic self-determination based on national traditions, values of Russian and world culture. This implies the need to solve a number of tasks: creating conditions for learning and understanding the cultures of other peoples, fostering tolerance in interpersonal relationships with people belonging to different ethnic groups and races, while preserving the identity of each culture and ethnic group separately. Understanding this provides the basis for studying the psychological mechanisms of interpersonal interaction between different ethnic groups, searching for various ways to form a culture of interethnic communication, readiness and ability for productive intercultural interaction in a multiethnic educational environment.

Purpose: to investigate the psychological mechanisms of interpersonal interaction of students in a multiethnic educational environment.

Materials and methods. Theoretical analysis of scientific data; empirical methods: methodology "Method of diagnosis of basic semantic attitudes"; methodology "Diagnosis of communicative attitudes"; methodology "Diagnosis of socio-psychological attitudes of personality in the motivational-need sphere"; methodology "Types and components of tolerance -intolerance"; "Questionnaire of interpersonal relations"; methodology for measuring ethnocentrism; methods statistical data processing.

Results. Russian students tend to establish close sensual relationships, are careful when establishing close intimate relationships, and when choosing people with whom they create deeper emotional relationships. The intensity of their behavior is more focused on the need to establish and maintain good relationships with others, to create close emotional bonds with others. Unlike international students, who tend to seek out and avoid people, they are careful when establishing close intimate relationships, when choosing people with whom they create deeper emotional relationships.

Conclusions. The system-forming role in the structure of psychological, socio– psychological attitudes and interpersonal interaction among foreign students is assigned to the setting mechanism – the "factor of intolerance", among Russian students - to interpersonal relations: "the factor of intensity of behavior aimed at satisfying the need to establish and maintain relationships with others".

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