Aim. To study the scientific contribution of K. M. Gurevich, an outstanding scientist, into the development of differential psychology, labor psychology, psychological diagnostics. The article was prepared for the 110th anniversary of the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education.

Methodology. The article deals with scientific directions and psychological schools of the Institute. The merits of the Institute’s employees in the field of education and science are studied using biographical, bibliographic methods and interview.

Results. K. M. Gurevich developed questions of professional suitability from the standpoint of the theory of the basic properties of the nervous system. The problem of variability of individual psychological differences was also investigated by him. The article analyzes the views of the scientist on the principles of the development and verification of psychological diagnostics methods. He created the concept of socio–psychological standards. The concept has found its practical implementation in the development of domestic tests of mental development.

Research implications. The article summarizes the material on the scientific activities of K. M. Gurevich, an employee of the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education and an outstanding scientist.  

Aim. Analysis of the connection between Internet activity, forms of online aggression and their connection with the traits of the dark triad of personality.

Methodology. The study involved 293 Internet users aged 16 to 46 years. The following methods were used: a theoretical analysis of the problem, stating an experiment in which, using the “Questionnaire for determining the level of Internet activity and the characteristics of the consumption of Internet resources”, A.I. Luchinkina, Russian-language adaptation of the Short Dark Triad (SD3) technique; questionnaire “Propensity for bullying in the Internet space” I. S. Luchinkina studied Internet activity, forms of online aggression and their relationship with the traits of the dark triad of personality.

Results. Positive significant relationships were found between narcissism, the level of Internet activity and certain forms of cyberbullying; between Machiavellianism, Internet activity levels, threats of physical assault.

Research implications. For the first time, the factor of the relationship between the traits of the dark triad, the level of Internet activity and certain forms of cyberbullying was investigated.

Aim. Analysis of the nature of the relationship between existential fulfillment and professional motivation among subjects of helping professions.

Methodology. The authors analyzed scientific papers and empirical material on the study of the phenomena of existential fulfillment and professional motivation. An ascertaining experiment was carried out. The article presents the results of the study of the relationship of these phenomena in psychologists as subjects of helping professions. The sample consisted of 153 people (31 men and 122 women). Practicing psychologists-consultants with experience from 3 to 6 years, aged 27 to 42 years. To conduct the study, the following methods were applied: Questionnaire Scale of Existence (SE) S.V. Krivtsova, A. Lenglet, K. Orgler, a questionnaire for diagnosing the motives of professional activity of specialists T.N. Frantseva (2010), a methodology for assessing the motivation of professional activity by K. Zamfir (modified by A.A. Rean).

Results. The results of the study showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between existential fulfillment and professional motivation, namely: high rates of existential fulfillment of psychologists correspond to the motive of professional activity - “self-realization motive” and such regulatory factors as “value regulation”, “volitional regulation” and internal and external positive motivation.

Research implications. The work contributes to the study of existential aspects of choice, motivation of subjects of helping professions. The data obtained can be useful in the activities of educational institutions that offer training, additional education, retraining or advanced training of specialists in helping professions in order to improve the quality of the services offered and develop training programs that are most consistent with the goals of training qualified professionals. And also when creating training programs for the formation and updating of professionally important qualities in future psychologists, as well as programs for the prevention of emotional burnout. Empirical materials can form the basis for the study of meaningful life, value orientations and the study of the existential dynamics of these aspects in psychologists.

Aim. To highlight the main trends of studying climate in the organization, typical for foreign studies.

Methodology. More than thirty foreign sources for the last six years have been translated and analyzed. The articles of authors from the USA, South Africa, India, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, European countries (Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands), Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Iran were studied.

Results. As a result, five current trends of studying the organizational and psychological climate and related phenomena have been identified.

Research implications. Five trends relevant to foreign research in the study of climate in the organization have been identified and described, which can be taken into account by domestic researchers in the further study of this phenomenon.

Aim. Is to analyze the external and internal factors that determine the readiness of students to develop universal digital competencies. Methodology. The survey was conducted among university students by means of a questionnaire. The questionnaire included questions revealing the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, their digital competencies in the field of information, communication, content creation, security; experience in using digital competencies in everyday life, education, professional activity; assessment of the role of digital competencies in various fields of activity; motivation for further formation of digital competencies. The indicators of students’ involvement in the digital environment collected during the survey made it possible to identify factors that influence the willingness to develop universal digital competencies. The sample consisted of 446 undergraduate students (age: M= 18.67, STD= 0.999), 65% of them are girls. The analysis was carried out using statistical methods ANOVA, MANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis.

Results. The study revealed direct and indirect factors influencing the willingness of students to develop universal digital competencies. Direct factors include high rates of involvement in the Internet information space and the development of computer competence with low self-esteem of the development of digital competencies; indirect factors include the perception of the importance of digitalization in one’s life, the number of digital devices, a broad outlook. It was revealed that an excessive amount of time spent on the Internet and the orientation of entertainment content prevent the formation of readiness to further develop their digital competencies.

Research implications. The results of the study contribute to understanding of the necessary conditions for the formation of readiness for the development of universal digital competencies.

Aim. The article presents the features of the organization of education in a hospital school, substantiates the effectiveness of creating a digital educational environment at literature lessons in a hospital school in order to form an individual educational route and increase the level of cognitive motivation of students undergoing long-term treatment, and presents the results of the study.

 Methodology. An analysis of the content of the researchers’ work in a hospital school was carried out. Key methods of the research were interviewing and surveying of teachers and students at hospital schools implementing the project «We teach/They learn» (UchimZnaem). The study involved students of the 6th grade.

Results. The study has shown that while teaching students undergoing long-term treatment an individual educational route is required. It was proved that the use of a variety of digital resources helps increasing cognitive motivation at the lessons of literature at a hospital school.

Research implications. The significance of the research is determined by the contribution to the development of ideas about the digital educational environment for teaching literature to students undergoing long-term treatment, as well as in expanding the tools for individualizing the educational process in a hospital school.

Aim of this work was to conduct a longitudinal study of the level of anxiety among graduating students (grades 9, 11) and students who need not pass final exams (grades 8, 10); to compare the indicators and find out the differences among them; as well as in analyzing the dynamics of the level of anxiety in different years on the example of students in grade 11 (at the time of the start of the study they were grade 9).

Methodology. In the period of 2020-2022, students in grades 8-11 were tested, with the aim of studying the level of anxiety using the State - Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) by Ch.D. Spielberger adapted by Yu.L. Khanina. After each test the data were subjected to mathematical processing using the statistical Mann–Whitney U-test. In order to identify changes in 2022, data from students in the current 11th grade for 2020 and 2022 was also analyzed using the Wilcoxon T-test.

Results. It has been identified and statistically proven that many students become more anxious during exam years, and the number of such students increases every year. In addition, anxiety scores are moderate or low both before and after the examination period. Using the example of 11th grade students, it was also revealed that during the period of the OGE, these same students were less anxious than during the period of the EGE*.

Research implications. The data obtained allow us to conclude that it is necessary to provide psychological support to students in the examination year, aimed at reducing their anxiety.

Aim. To study the influence of information content on the formation of a young person’s personality in adolescence and adolescence, their safety. The article is devoted to the study of information and sanogenic security and Internet activity of younger generation. The authors emphasize that with ‘ teenagers’ total addiction to communicating in social networks and their exposure to some negative effects of the Internet (cognitive absorption, preference for real online communication, compulsive use, deviant activity, depressive or aggressive states, distance from loved ones), attention should be paid to the development of awareness to the perception of network content. At the same time, it is necessary to understand how the self-identification of young people occurs, their positive attitude towards themselves and others is formed, as well as to what extent their ability to overcome intrapersonal conflicts is formed.

Methodology. The article examines the relationship of indicators of individual psychological boys and girls with information and sanogenic safety, obtained and analyzed using the following empirical methods: questionnaire “Personality activity in a virtual social network” (E.I. Bogomolova); Chen’s Internet addiction scale (CIAS); questionnaire “Assessment of personal satisfaction in the need of security” (O.Y. Zotova); the method of subjective assessment of situational and personal anxiety by C.D. Spielberger and Y.L. Khanin; the personal questionnaire of Eysenck” (EPQ). Mathematical and statistical methods of processing the obtained data – primary statistics, comparison method (Mann-Whitney U criterion), correlation analysis (Kendall coefficient).

Results. The article presents the results of studying information and sanogenic safety of younger generation. The study revealed that male adolescents and male youths have fewer problems with time management compared to female adolescents and youths, but with high personal anxiety, the tendency to Internet addiction increases.

Research implications. The theoretical significance lies in the analysis of objective determinants of the influence of various environmental factors on the information and sanogenic security of the individual in adolescence and teen-age. The practical significance lies in the fact that the obtained results of the study of the information and sanogenic safety of the young generation, taking into account their psychological characteristics allows us to justify the complex of preventive measures that contribute to the normal development of a young person’s personality. The article describes the directions of preventive work with young people at risk who have a low level of resistance to information characterized as Internet risks.

Aim. The study of the peculiarities of experiencing subjective psychological well-being by cadets with different levels of emotional stability for their consideration in the implementation of professional selection for service.

Methodology. 74 cadets of 1–2 courses of Vologda Institute of Law and Economics of Russia took part in the study. To study the problem of the research, the five-factor personality questionnaire in the adaptation of A.B. Khromov (“Big Five”) and the questionnaire of psychological well-being of K. Riff in the adaptation of T.D. Shevelenkova and P.P. Fesenko were used.

Results. Data on the predominance of the average level of emotional stability among cadets were obtained, while almost half of them have a low level and are emotionally unstable. Differences in the features of experiencing the psychological well-being of cadets with different levels of emotional stability were established. Low emotional stability is combined with a low level of subjective well-being and a negative perception of oneself and the surrounding reality.

Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the study of the problem of psychological well-being and its determinants.

Aim. To study the influence of the factor of satisfaction with marriage on the success of sociopsychological adaptation of women who married foreigners.

Methodology. The study was conducted based on social networks using a Google form. The sample consisted of 65 women who moved to a new country in connection with marriage with foreigners, of which 41 were satisfied with their marriage and 24 were not satisfied. The following methods were used: “Questionnaire of interpersonal relations” edited by A. Rukavishnikova, “Types of Ethnic Identity” by G. U. Soldatova and S. V. Ryzhova, Rogers-Diamond’s “Test Questionnaire for Social and Psychological Adaptation” edited by A. K. Osnitsky. To analyze the obtained data, descriptive statistics and correlation analysis the Spearman correlation coefficient were used.

Results revealed differences in adaptation between groups of women who were satisfied and dissatisfied with their relationships. It was found that these differences can be assessed from the perspective of interpersonal communication. The type of ethno-cultural adaptation is not associated with differences in the adaptation of women who moved to a new country due to marriage.

Research implications. Lie in clarifying the ideas about the factors influencing the success of the socio-psychological adaptation of women who married foreigners. The data obtained can be used by practical psychologists and social workers to provide adequate assistance and support.

Aim. The article presents the results of a pilot study. The purpose of the study was to examine the social representations of counseling among respondents with different religious identity intensity.

Methodology. The “Modification of the in-group identification measure” by K. Leach and the “Method of in-depth interview” were used as research methods. The focus group transcripts were analyzed in accordance with a phenomenological approach and a “grounded theory” approach.

Results. It is shown that the content of ideas about counseling among people with high and low religious identity intensity is quite close. It is realistic and reflects various components of counseling (organization, tasks, characteristics of a psychologist). The content differences about psychological assistance were found: for people with high religious identity intensity tend to differentiate psychological (mental) and existential (spiritual) problems. Spiritual problems are not considered relevant for counseling.

Research implications. Research data deepen understanding of social representations of counseling among different social groups. Research results may be used in providing counseling support for religious clients.