The article is dedicated to the research of the problem of life satisfaction at elderly and senile ages. The interrelation between life satisfaction and life-meaning orientations is indicated, as well as its interrelation with the particular aspects of value-purpose essences functioning in motivational sphere of a person. Special attention is paid to the changes in the structure of life satisfaction at different stages of a person’s aging. It is determined that life satisfaction is affected by such factors as level of education and presence of family and work.

The article presents the results of the comparative study of psychosemantic of precedent-related texts: Chaikosky’s music from the ballet «The Nutaracker» (the dance of fairy Dragée), a choreographic fragment from the ballet, as well as commercials which use the mentioned musical fragment. The hypothesis, verified in the process of research, was that it was supposed that the perception of the television advertising which use a precedent-related musical text is determined by the degree of semantic affinity of the initial messages (visual and audio). It is shown that the effectiveness of an advertising text is connected with the semantic co-ordination of musical, linguistic and visual texts.

Since the time religiousness first appeared it fulfilled adaptive function as a system of collective representations about the way the world is organized. Besides, it gave certain sense to existence. How much does religious consciousness help or prevent from adapting to modern society? What is the impact of religiousness on the character and personality of the modern young people: to what degree are these impacts constructive or destructive? On the basis of a great number of experimental data and on the example of Christian denominations the author gives the answers to these questions.

The article makes actual the need for systematic and careful research of a complex of questions related to the functioning of the institution of a foster family and foster parenthood. The results of psychosemantic research of the way men and women understand people who undertake the mission of foster parents are given. The empirical data are considered in two options of semantic space: received when using scales of semantic differential with the most abstract estimated characteristics and when using more concrete estimated scales. The results testify the priority of men and women’s positive perception of foster parents in small gender specifics. This allows to predict possible success of social work focused on making the accepting of deprived children into foster families more active.

The article takes into consideration the questions of the terminology of pedagogical psychology in the second half of the 19th- the beginning of the 20th centuries. The author connects the initial step of that tendency with L. Tolstoy’s pedagogical activity, as well as with the introduction a number of specific lexemes into scientific rotation. These lexemes reflect the views of the outstanding Russian writer on the impact of social life on people’s outlook. The use of works of P. Kapterev, V.I. Behterev and A.F. Lazursky revealed the role of Russian psychologists introducing and development of some theoretical concepts and means ways of their expression in the sphere of practical psychology of education in the aspect of psychology of influence, art- therapy and art-pedagogy.

The article is devoted to the study of correlation between the formation of perfectionism and types of family relations. Based on the analysis of results of psychological and pedagogical research it is revealed that the level of formation of perfectionism is maximal in an “authoritarian type” of a family relations and is minimal in a “liberal type” family. “Healthy” perfectionism reaches its maximum in a “democratic type” of family relations. The article shows frequency distribution of relations in the families of people tested.

The article represents the results of an empirical study of the most important terminal values of students-psychologists. It is shown that profession and education are the priority vital fields for students. Some values important for students are identified in both leading fields. Empirically it is proven that terminal values in the field of education are related to motivation for studying and satisfaction with the results of studying at a university. Special attention is paid to the values of creative activity and moral satisfaction in the sphere of education and their interrelation with the parameters of motivation and satisfaction with the study.

In this article the connections between personal characteristics of rigidity and tolerance to uncertainty are shown, as well as the levels of moral self-consciousness. The connection of each personal characteristic with students’ progress in studies is discovered and some possible predictors of the progress are shown. Likewise the gender differences in intolerance in personal relationships and in some forms of rigidity were brought out. Besides, the results of the research allow to extend earlier extracted latent variable of Intolerance to uncertainty due to including personal characteristic of rigidity in it.

The authors studied the connection of self-efficacy with a person’s abilities to be tolerant, among which are: tolerance-intolerance to uncertainty, risk tolerance and rationality, and, finally, the retrospective evaluation of traits manifested in the regulation of choice. 97 students of the department of psychology were recruited psychology as participants of the test. The person under test was to make choice in 8 verbal tasks: in 4 tasks to make choices «for self» (personal), and in 4 other tasks - for another person (“the supposed majority”). The results demonstrated that self-evaluations of personality traits related to self-efficacy differ in the conditions of choice made “for self” and “for others”. Due to these positions the participants of the test showed different personal involvement into the regulation of choice of personal efforts.

The need for considerable improvement of law enforcement body in ensuring proper supervision of adherence of law has become the main stimulus for studying the problem of psychological evaluation and professional selection of candidates for a position in the prosecutor’s office. The article presents the main requirements for the system of psychological assessment forecasting professional suitability of prosecutors and investigators. Besides, the author highlights the main stages of the designing the system of psychological assessment based on professional-graphic approach.

The article describes the structure of personnel’s motivation. The components of the subject-content aspect of motivation were significant factors of social and objective environment. Personal significance of factors: external / internal motivation, desire for creativity, service to society, and the realization of abilities, on the one hand, and material security, desire for protection, preservation of health, focus on tradition, on the other. The article presents the levels (low, medium, high) of development of personnel’s motivation. According to the results of the research the intensity of the components of personnel’s motivation is compared with the “ideal” motivation for this occupational category. Most of the company’s employees pay attention to the motivation for preservation of health, whish is a disturbing factor for the company’s management.