The article describes the data of the theoretical
analysis of domestic and foreign psychology phenomenon
of social activity. The author presents the approaches to the
study of the social activity boundaries, analyzes approaches
to their content fullness and functions. The article shows the
perspectives of studying the social activity in relation to the
persons subjective well-being. The research is performed on
the basis of «social boundary existence» approach. The author
concludes that one of the regulating mechanisms of the
subjective localization of the persons social activity boundaries
is the emotional experience of a subjective well-being (or
ill-being)

The article presents the results of the sociocognitive
analysis of the structural manifestations of intergroup
adaptive mechanisms, existing in real economic trade
and services organizations of Moscow Region. It is based on
the combination of complementary knowledge management
theory, organizational applications of the complex systems
theory (through the viewpoint of D. Snowden) and the authors
conception of intergroup adaptation in organizations.
The author empirically proved the prognostic possibility to
give a diagnosis of the structural mechanisms of intergroup
adaptation. That enables to determine the cognitive domains
Cynefin of the organization, including the shimmering zone.
The results are intended to optimize the professional activities
of the organizational psychologist

Recently thereve appeared some psychological,
social-psychological and pedagogical researches mentioning
the special value of senior teenagers communication
with adult. The researchers note some strengthening the role
of a dialogue with adults, who possess the necessary social
experience and knowledge. This phenomenon is described
in connection with the arising problem of the teenager s perspective
self-determination in life. The experimenters testify
the parents strong influence on teenagers value orientations,
their expectations, behavioral models and schemes of reasoning.
Large-scale researches state that the effective communication
is an element of a more complex set of parental
effective behavior, titled authoritative style of upbringing.

The article examines the interconnection of
Moscow youngsters ethnic attitudes and preferable strategies
of coping with stressful situations having situational context.
The research involved 105 people aged 16 to 19 years,
being high school students and first-year university students.
The subjects of the research were offered to recollect and
give a detailed verbal description of a stressful situation. This
article describes the way the designation of a stressful situation,
connected with the nationality phenomenon, influence
the choice of coping strategies and ethnic attitudes. The results
indicate differences in using the strategy of responsibility
acceptance, in patriotic and neutral ethnic attitudes among
youngsters, who described various stressful situations.

The article describes some peculiarities of a
substitute family emotional environment with foster children
younger than the native (blood) ones. The article singles out
the criteria of the family emotional environment as well as its
indicators and manifestations in a substitute family and in the
native family. The author gives a detailed description of the
peculiarities of primary school childrens emotional state in
two kinds of families, their emotional attitude to the members
of the native family and the replacement one, the family members
emotions and some peculiarities of the family systems.
The results of foster childrens attitude to the substitute family
and its members are described. The research has shown that
primary school children treat their mother more kindly than
their father. Its the positive image of a substitute mother that
makes the basis of foster childrens positive emotional state
in the family. A special place in creating a family emotional
environment is occupied by joint leisure activities organized
by parents.

The article is devoted to the questions of primary
school childrens moral development. The article grounds the
necessity of forming moral standards on the emotional, cognitive
and behavioral levels of modern school childrens personality
in modern school system. The author`s understanding
of the evolution of such concepts as: ethics, moral judgment,
empathy in philosophical and psychological research of the
past and the contemporary period is presented in this article.
The cognitive basis of the childs transition to more mature
levels of moral development is explained. The results of the
research of cognitive and emotional components of school
childrens moral development are shown as an interrelation of
the following characteristics: the childs ability to empathy, his
ability to emotionally understand the other persons emotional
state, the flexibility of his moral judgments.

The article is about the impact of socio-psychological
competence of students of different educational
levels on their subjective well-being and meaningfulness of
their living. The article presents the results of the empiric research
analysis aimed at studying the problem. The author
mentions some universal and specific (depending on the students
educational level) determinants of students subjective
life quality. The author considers students to be those who
go to school, study at technical schools and at professional
retraining courses. The determinants studied are some of
socio-psychological competencies.

The article is devoted to the description of the
current tendencies of school childrens adaptation to school in
the conditions of modernization of education system in Russia
as well as to the description of the change of external
and internal patterns of childrens intellectual development.
The author considers fundamental and applied approaches
to studying the adaptation process, describes motivational
and social components of school adaptation. The emotional
attitude to school is described as an indicator of school adaptation
success. Besides, the article presents the gender
features of school adaptation process. The research results
enable to state that theres some mismatch between the adaptation
components. The social motivation is the main motive
for the first graders; children are able to cooperate and
collaborate successfully but the majority of them feel anxiety
about communicating with the teacher. The motivational component
is more indicative for girls than for boys and the social
component- for boys than for girls.

The article presents the results of studying
the interconnection of individual self-regulation peculiarities
and volitional qualities of a person. Its shown that high
level of self-regulation is based on such volatile qualities as
persistence, discipline, independence, assertiveness and
success-orientation. The respondents having high level of
self-regulation are more focused and independent, they are
self-relied, they try to overcome difficulties on their way to the
goal and strive to raise their social status. If volitional regulation
is highly developed, all self-regulation elements have
high range of values, it helps in developing harmonious style
of self-regulation.

The article describes the degree of estimation
criteria understanding as an indicator of distinctions in
psychological structure of estimation expressed by teenagers
from different regions of the CIS. The egocentric and altruistic
definitions of estimation criteria are analyzed. Its shown that
teenagers from the CIS western regions typically tend to
give egocentric descriptions with the use of original abstract
definitions. Teenagers from the CIS eastern regions typically
tend to give altruistic descriptions, using less self-reliant
definitions and more normative ones.

The article deals with the insufficiently
investigated problem of interconnection of the persons
professional deformations and the development of proneness
to conflict as a personal quality. The author gives proofs for
the need of a systemic psychological approach to studying
the teachers professional deformation. Its stressed that
such deformation is caused by the specific character of
his activities and results in personal and communicative
destruction. The author states that it is one of the factors of
teenagers proneness to conflict.

The article deals with the psychological
phenomenon of the young peoples religious identity. As
a hypothesis its suggested that the Church Institution
(represented by religious youth) has a stable shape and
authentication mechanisms in crisis situations. Its also
stated that religious consciousness and value orientations,
being the basic kinds of identity, occupy a special place in
the structure of young peoples religious identity. There have
been conducted a study among students of two universities:
the Orthodox and secular ones. It was found out that the
psychological core, forming a persons world view, consists of
value orientations and of a stable form of identity.

The article describes the essence of professional
and personal development, defines its importance for
future social teachers. The problem of ethic-humanist potential
is revealed both through the essential characteristics of
future social teachers professional and personal development
and through the importance of humanistic and ethical
values formation. The author analyzes the peculiarities of students
personal development and substantiates ethical and
humanistic potential of the higher education teaching practice
system being the basis of future social teachers professional
and personal development. The antinomic characteristics of
the definition studied are singled out.

The article explores music teachers ethnocultural,
psycho-physiologic prerequisites of thinking and
abilities in the process of noo-humanistic outlook training. The
didactic potential of motion skills, typical for music thinking, as
well as its nature-congruence are defined in terms of noohumanistic
pedagogics. Ethno-cultural specific character of
Kazakh traditional music («culture of states», meditativity,
virtuality) stimulates comprehension of noo-humanistic
concepts.