There are a number of theories not only
emphasizing the connection between anxiety and depression,
but also indicating the unity of the affective,
cognitive, physiological and behavioral components.
The fact most researchers seem to agree upon is that
these disorders correlate in time. The data obtained in
course of longitudinal studies confirm the hypothesis
that anxiety precedes depression. It has also been
found out that those children who were first diagnosed
with anxiety and then with depression suffered longer
periods of depressive states.

How effectively can the system of social
services meet the needs of elderly people? To answer this
question we should both defi ne the concepts of need,
motivation, etc. and contemporary theories studying
them. The paper compares different treatments of needs
and motives in psychology. Particular attention is given
to the motive-need sphere of elderly people and some
examples of studying elderly peoples motives are provided.
In conclusion the authors discuss the perspectives of
materializing concepts of need and motivation in social
service system.

The author suggests her own method of studying
individual outlook stability and applies it to two types
of situations: habitual ways and activity under critical circumstances.
The results obtained show differences in the
groups of respondents acting in a familiar situation (the
fi rst group) and in crisis (the second group). The features
of individual outlook stability in crisis have been revealed.

The article attempts at clarifying the concept
attitude having various interpretations in philosophy,
logic, sociology, psychology and linguistics. The investigated
concept is considered mainly in Russian tradition.
A number of adjacent concepts are presented: psychological
attitude, interpersonal relations, setting, social
attitude, expectation, motive, direction, etc.
The author resorts to the description of the key points
of Myasishchevs theory of interpersonal relations to show
that even in the most developed national theory the concept
attitude is an ambiguous term, possessing a wide
and almost universal spectrum of meanings.

The study considers teenagers leader qualities
as a value sphere element of their personalities, which
is most effectively formed in a reference group. The author
shows that teenage referential leadership is infl uenced by
psychological factors combining the most signifi cant at
this age values (success, unity and authority), which will
be realized more effectively under the following conditions:
motivation to the groups successful achievement, assimilation
of the group members personal qualities to those
of the leader and imitation of his/her behavior, the groups
recognition and trust in the leader.

In modern Russian society diverse social
group representatives show considerable differences as
to the degree of their satisfaction with the quality of their
lives. Changes in standards of living of Russian people
have caused social, economic and psychological problems,
which have sharp negative consequences. Being a
signifi cant resource of any country, the youth should feel
psychological comfort to carry out the functions of reproduction
and further development of the society. However,
young people from different social groups are not equally
satisfi ed with the quality of their lives.

The article studies distinctions in the choice
of a coping strategy by healthy examinees and those
having complaints of psychosomatic character. It has
been established that at a high level of situational uneasiness
the examinees with psychosomatic complaints
neither aspire to active actions nor choose adaptive
emotional coping strategy, which leads to disconnection
between the components of coping behavior, emotional
properties and individual resources

The paper considers security training as a
primary means of optimizing individuals social and psychological
safety. The algorithm, basic provisions, direction
and peculiarities of socio-psychological security training of
the individual have been described. Empirical studies have
proved high effi ciency and practical value of the training
which lies in its use for preventing negative social tendencies.

The article deals with Russian and foreign
psychological theories covering the problem of management
style. The author gives modern interpretation to the
concept style. A brief account of different researches of
management style has been presented and dependence
of individual behavior and management style on the persons
nervous system has been shown. The criteria and
factors determining dependence of management style on
managers temperament have been stated revealing the
most interrelated properties of management style and individual
temperament

The article is concerned with the peculiarities
of emotion and will regulation of pupils while transferring
from elementary to secondary school. The structure of
emotion and will regulating system of young schoolchildren
comprises two blocks, whereas intellectual and will
components make one block.
The parameters of these components are closely connected.
The other block includes motivational and emotional
components. The parameters of the emotional component
are interrelated, but rather slightly connected with
the parameters of the motivational component.
During the transition of schoolchildren to the fi fth form
the united mechanism of emotional and will regulation develops,
with the parameters of all components being interrelated.

This paper presents empirical results of the
comparative analysis of two groups of teenagers. The
fi rst were brought up in a family and the second - in a
social centre. The research was conducted by using Kuhn-
McPartlands method «Who am I?». The empirical fi ndings
have reported signifi cant differences in self-determination
of the respondents. The analysis of structural components
of social identity has showed differences in teenagers
choices, self-images and emotional reactions to different
social situations. The paper also defi nes the basic directions
of teen identity in both groups and the role of the
others in their social environment

The article investigates the development
strategy of value-semantic spheres of modern students
personality. The development of value-semantic sphere
of personality is regarded as a bilateral process to address
that, on the one hand, it is necessary to expand the
knowledge of values, on the other - to take into account
the method of their appropriation. The conditions for the
development of value-semantic sphere of a student are
the following: familiarizing and updating the existing cultural
values, patterning and practicing new social roles,
sense transforming activity, creating situations for possible
emotional response and taking into account socio-cultural
conditions.

The article reports the results of research
studying childrens and adolescents use of the Internet
for educational purposes. It reveals different attitudes to
the Internet expressed by students of different ages and
shows that modern teenagers around the world prefer
online communication to all other forms as it allows of
making a large number of friends. The problem of parental
control has been raised in using the Internet for
educational purposes.

Of all non-family sources of sex-role socialization
television occupies a special place as an accessible
channel of mass information. From this source
boys and girls receive a variety of information on the
problems of gender, sex-role attributes and relationships
between the sexes. At a primary school age the
interest in TV programs and other issues increases.
Those children who often watch TV programs targeted
at adult audience have the same sex-role stereotypes
as their favoured TV characters.

In modern society the problem of parenting is
one of the most pressing. Future parents ideas of perfect
parents, parental attitudes and positions, styles of parenting
are of great importance in forming such psychological
phenomenon as parenthood. Hence the task of psychological
preparing students for future parenthood is of practical
value. The more adequate and specifi c is the system
of students ideas of parenting the higher are their chances
for creating a full family and successful child rearing.

The article describes the value attitude to
the pupil as an integrated personal semantic phenomenon
in the psychological structure of which verbal, fi gurative
and affective forms of personal meaning are represented
alongside with the personal meaning as a sense-motive of
any activity. Among the main mechanisms of the formation
of value attitude to the pupil are interiorization, experience,
refl ection, goal-setting and identifi cation with professional
educators.

Тhe article is devoted to drug abuse prevention
by army psychologists as a guarantee of experts reliability.
The author specifi es the concept of experts reliability.
On the basis of the analysis of foreign and domestic
practice it is shown that the integral part of experts reliability
is drug abuse prevention in which the psychological
component is of special signifi cance. Legal documents
regulating anti-drug abuse campaign in the Russian Armed
Forces have been studied, with a special focus being made
on the psychological component of preventive measures.
The role of psychologists in solving the adequate problem
in US Armed Forces has been analyzed and a conclusion
that the two national armies have essentially different tactics
in dealing with drug-abuse has been made.

The article researches the concepts competency
and competence and suggests their differentiation.
The structure of communicative competency of a fi re
service expert includes cognitive, speech and interactive
strategies. The author reveals and defi nes the types of
communicative challenges of fi re service experts. On the
basis of the mentioned structure and the revealed features
of communicative interaction in extreme circumstances the
defi nition of the concept «communicative competency of a
fi re service expert» has been made

The article is concerned with social and psychological
factors of forming youth labor market in postcrisis
conditions. A comparison has been made between
young workers opinions and employers ideas of the most
important qualities required on a labor market, namely
quality education, professionalism, ability to operate independently,
responsibility, reliability, communicative skills,
high effi ciency and good health. It has been noticed that
there is a difference in attitudes towards young labor force
among the heads of state and private enterprises.

The article studies the connection between
the persons professional activity and the structures of individual
style of self-control of mental conditions. The description
of the structure of individual style of self-control of
mental conditions of students, military men and teachers
is presented. By comparing the groups of examinees the
authors seek to answer the questions how professional
activity infl uences the structure of individual style of selfcontrol
and what mental conditions are the leading ones
in various trades.
The conducted experiment employed 25 parameters
of psychological techniques by M.Luscher, H.Eysenck,
A.Prokhorov, L.Kulikov and O.Mikshik. By means of these
parameters four types of structures of individual self-control
of mental conditions (harmonious, hang-the-expense,
saving and economical) have been revealed and characterized
in each sample, as well as the variables describing
the infl uence of conditions of professional activity on the
structure of individual self-control of mental conditions.

The article considers the urgency of the problem
of primary prevention of factors negatively infl uencing
psycho-physical well-being of conscripts. The analysis of
such factors (psychogenic, social and ecological) is presented.
A model of psychological monitoring of conscripts
based on diagnostics and correction of indicators of their
psycho-physical well-being and their involvement into drug
use has been developed and approved by method of vegetative
resonant testing.

The article summarizes the results of reporting
university teachers on the issue of their image of an
expert, researcher, citizen and student. The most important
features of the university teacher infl uencing his/her
professional activity have been marked and differences
have been revealed in the views of teachers with various
terms of experience concerning the individual characteristics
that make teaching practice most effi cient. The study
has also shown a rather high interest of university teachers
in research, though they consider it an important factor to
be allocated an additional vacation for being involved in
this activity.

The article investigates four mechanisms of
emotional effects of music on the listener: psychophysiological,
simptomatiyny, subject-situational and life context.
Psychophysiological functioning and simptomatiynogo
mechanisms due to the peculiarities infl uence of music
and sound material on the human brain and its ability to
assign the symptoms of emotional distress. Functioning
of the domain-specifi c situational mechanism related to
the ability of music to refl ect emotional signifi cance for the
listener object. In the mechanism of the same life context
the music does not control the emotional experience the
listener (as in the three mechanisms mentioned above),
but only serves as a trigger for him, recalling the special
circumstances.

The article is concerned with the main problems
of social education in Russia. The author analyses
the fi rst results of Russias twenty year practice of social
work and compares it with the similar experience of some
European countries. The stages of Russian social education
have been critically examined and the main trends of
its contemporary development within the frameworks of
Bologna process have been analyzed.

The article substantiates the use of system
approach in studying and building socio-pedagogical
concepts and systems, which allows of understanding the
nature of socialization and revealing the main directions
of its processes. The interconnection of laws, principals
and rules in social pedagogy has been analyzed as well as
their realization in pedagogical activity. The article studies
the goal-setting problem in educational process and
formulates methodological approach to socio-pedagogical
concept.

The paper presents an innovative prognostic
model refl ecting the pedagogical concept of high school
social teachers emotional culture development. The basic
content and structural components of the developed concept
have been shown and their functional interrelations
have been analyzed on the basis of system approach. The
inner and outer factors of emotional culture development
have been distinguished and the basic principles of its formation
have been considered

The article considers volunteering as an effective
tool of state policy in youth, social and employment
spheres as it helps to realize the citizens rights to participate
actively in the life of their country and thus to promote
its long and short term socio-economic development.
Volunteerism favors both people receiving assistance and
volunteers themselves. The conclusion is based on the
study of the motives that generate volunteer activity both in
economically developed European countries and presentday
Russia.