The aim of the study is to study the relationship between adolescents’ (aged 13-17) eating disorders with the level of situational anxiety and anxiety as a personal quality. Pearson rank correlation was used as a method of mathematical statistics. The results obtained by the authors in the course of the study showed a statistically significant correlation between anxiety and eating disorders. The theoretical and practical significance of the study allows psychologists, consultants, as well as to the specialists of the psychological service of secondary educational institutions, to develop an effective program of reducing the high level of anxiety causing adolescents’ eating disorders.

The purpose of the article is to study the general structural and content characteristics of the family self-consciousness of men and to identify their characteristics depending on the type of family self-consciousness of men. The study is based on the subject-activity and personality-oriented approaches. The sample consisted of 120 men living in the cities of Sverdlovsk region, aged from 27 to 49 years (M=35 years), married from 3 to 27 years (M=10 years), with minor children. The features of the structural components content of family self-consciousness are studied. The typology of family self-consciousness of men is empirically verified. It reflects the features of a man’s perception of himself in the family, the specifics of his attitude to himself as a family member, the peculiarities of his realization of family roles and functions. The authors conducted the phenomenological analysis of the category “family self-consciousness of men” in the unity of its cognitive, emotional, behavioral components. Three types of men’s family self-consciousness are empirically identified and described as “harmonious”, “disharmonious in relations with a child”, “disharmonious in relations with a wife and a child”. The article is addressed to family psychologists and specialists engaged in professional training and retraining of psychologists to work with the family.

The study was conducted on a sample of 349 millennials (generation «Y») and baby boomers. The main methods were the author’s questionnaire of social ideas about relationships and marriage, the questionnaire «Role expectations and claims in marriage» (ROP) by A.N. Volkova, a questionnaire of attitudes towards the registered marriage, a block of socio-demographic characteristics. The results suggest that there are no significant differences in the moral component of the ideas of the two generational cohorts. The peculiarity of the Millennial positions lies in the more rigid dependence of the desire to get married on their financial situation, a weaker orientation toward childbearing and parenting, a pronounced desire for professional accomplishments (for girls) and greater relaxedness in sexual life. The prospects for further research are outlined.

The article deals with the results of the study of adolescents’ values when they are involved into sports activities at varying degrees. The methodology and methods of research are described, as well as the methods for studying the value-sense sphere of adolescents. For value significance study a model of adolescent involvement into sports activities, including four stages, was developed and described. This made it possible to reveal the importance of sports activities in the formation of the value-semantic sphere of adolescents and to formulate recommendations for specialists on the involvement of adolescents into sports.

The article presents the results of the study which covers the social workers’ assessment of the migration situation in Russia and the problems of children from migrant families that arise in the process of their ethno-cultural adaptation. The study was conducted using the method of a written survey - a survey of 142 social workers. Typical, from the point of view of social workers, problems of migrant children, the conditions and effectiveness of ethno-cultural adaptation of children from migrant families and the most frequently used activities in social organizations, aimed at helping the family and migrant children, were identified.

The article covers the issues of socialization of children with disorders in the framework of global tasks aimed to improve their quality of life, psychological ecology of health and reaching social well-being. Psychological conditions and reasons for “accepting” the children into social environment are scrutinized. The technology of forming children’s “positive reality” and “picture of the world” is offered. In accordance with it goals of correction-developing education are formulated. The author’s strategy of social-psychological assistance to children with developmental disorders is offered. This strategy is aimed to ensure their psychological well-being and quality of life.

The article deals with the research problem of the possibility of combining the basic economic factor of «competitive conditions of professional activity» and the socio-psychological idea of collectivism. Psychological signs of professional activity conditions competitiveness and a collective, in particular, valuable orientation unity, readiness to work in a team, a combination of personal and group values are defined. A diagnostic procedure for the psychological study of level of the professional activity conditions competitiveness and psychological components that determine the degree of formation of the team is described. The optimum level of competitiveness of the conditions of professional activity, allowing the group to keep the traits of the team, is also mentioned. The possibilities of humanistic development of the labor market are outlined.

The article is devoted to the study of social factors of school and preschool education teachers’ psychological readiness for management. The empirical study, which involved 744 teachers, showed that there is an inverse relationship between the age and experience of teaching activities, on the one hand, and the teachers’ readiness for the transition to management work, on the other. Age has a stronger impact on psychological readiness compared to the experience of teaching. The paper reveals the fact that to the greatest extent, the age and experience affect personal meaning of the transition to management. There are time periods when the psychological readiness for the transition to management is maximal. For teachers this period is 5-10 years after beginning the teaching career, corresponding to the age of 30-33. It was not possible to allocate the period synchronously favorable on age and experience for teachers of preschool education, but it was revealed that the most unfavorable period is the age of 50, length of service is more than 16 years.