The emerging and growing trends in psychological science and practice are analyzed: uniting different streams of psychological research based on the field of brain sciences and genetics, the large sample studies, open science and overcoming the crisis of replicability, merging the lab studies and real life context. Special attention is paid to the consequences that the digital technologies (Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, smart materials, telepresence, brain-to-computer interfaces) imply for the psychological research and practice. The ways for developing the psychological community’s reflexivity and future orientation are proposed.

The article is the third article in a series of publications “Motivation of trade union membership as a component of inter-group adaptation of students and teachers in a united trade union of a university” [7; 8]. The article presents the model of involvement into the trade union movement as the determinant of intergroup adaptation of diverse groups inside educational trade union organizations. The principles of socio-psychological modeling are exemplified by the example of the results of the empirical research which covered primary trade union organizations of 4 universities and 7 secondary schools of Moscow. Total sample was 629 people, among them: 205 professors, 260 students, 164 teachers, and 37 of them were young teachers. Each group in the course of the intergroup adaptation has its own structure of involvement, which includes cognitive, emotional, behavioral components. Ranking order of the components, as well as their fullness depend on the group’s belonging to the generation and the current level of efficiency of trade union membership. In more effective organizations, the structure of involvement is stable, including: 1) emotional, 2) behavioral, 3) cognitive components that can quantify their fullness depending on the particular organization. In less effective trade union organizations - the structure is volatile, the components of involvement are unsettled. Stability and balance of structures of involvement of diverse groups into the trade union organization determine their determination of inter-group adaptation.

The article is devoted to the study of the influence of various aspects of role behavior on the effectiveness of group problem solving. A comprehensive study of cognitive capabilities and peculiarities of role behavior among the participants involved into the joint intellectual activities made it possible to redefine the role repertoire that is characteristic for the group solution of creative tasks. The general characteristics of the role activities are analyzed. Social roles, characteristic for the process of creative problems solving in randomly organized groups of people, acquainted with each other, are verified. Further analysis of the results showed there are significant links between the levels of some social roles manifestations and the level of various factors of intellect development. The final stage of the data analysis covers the attempt to connect the social roles manifestations with the efficiency of the joint intellectual activity

The article presents the results of an empirical study aimed at identifying the relationship of socio-psychological properties of the personality of children and their nannies’ professional strategies. This relationship reveals the psychological nature of the phenomenon of “nannied children”, which is represented as the effect of socialization of the child in the family with an employee. One aspect of the phenomenon is the low level of socio-psychological maturity of the children. It manifests itself in the specificity of the “nannied children” interaction with their peers and the significant Others. The abundance of the socio-psychological characteristics of children from families with an employee is due to the combined cause. The psychological readiness of these children’s mothers to transfer their responsibilities to the nanny is considered to be the main one. However, the strategies of professional interaction with the child preferred by the nanny can adjust the effect of the main cause. The effect of this influence is the manifestation of socio-psychological properties of the nannied children: the focus on themselves, passivity, indifference, and the use of strategies aimed at destructing interaction with their peers.

In this paper the relationship between the partners is understood as a system. The system statistical method - the structural equation modeling, was applied to 80 pairs of men and women representing different types of partnerships. The definition of gender tolerance is formulated. Assessing the manifestations of gender tolerance in various fields, no statistically significant differences between groups defined by the type of partnerships were found. Such kinds of gender tolerance, as child-rearing and house-keeping, make the main contribution into the mutual gender tolerance of partners. It was found that gender-tolerant partnerships are formed in those pairs where the man showed a friendly attitude to his wife and was committed to collaborate closely with her, and the woman was self-confident and independent, but successfully controlled her negative emotional expressions.

The article presents the results of studying the deviant teenagers’ attitude to their mothers. It is stated that, unlike teenagers with normal behavior, deviant teenagers consider their mothers to be less attached to them and to be more uncertain in upbringing, more aggressive and authoritative. Broken interrelationship with the mother is the factor of: teenagers’ estrangement, their search of the group where they find themselves important, their lack of certainty to be understood by mothers. The research discloses the factors promoting teenagers’ wish to demonstrate tension and anxiety, their wish to prove their independence but being answered by their mothers with cruelty and hostility. In the whole, it is determined that deviant teenagers’ mothers have a more negative attitude to them rather than those of teenagers with normal behavior. At the same time both groups of teenagers have a more negative attitude to the fathers in comparison with that to the mothers. The data received can be used in creating programs of psychological counseling for the families with deviant children, as well as for preventing deviant parenthood.

This paper dwells on the issue of psycho-educational development of parents’ competence as an index of their subjective position in the conditions of poly-subjective interaction. The stages of the author program for psycho-educational competence development of junior schoolchildren’ parents are presented. The program is based on the inclusion of a group of parents into the psycho-educational environment of the Childhood Development Center. The results of the parents’ subjective position change after the program participating are analyzed in the paper.

The article discusses the features of applying the procedure for the analysis of the narratives in studying emotional experiences of the subjects. Special attention is paid to the coverage of the language settings used by the population representatives for describing their experience, which is a significant component of modeling the process which analyzes the context of experiences. Besides, a number of the studies are highlighted, which study the narratives of mothers with use of the “Linguistic analysis and word count” (by Pennebacker). The narratives mentioned demonstrate the interrelationship between the language settings of their responses and the characteristics of parental attitudes.

In the article the theoretical aspects of the subject approach to studying psyche are examined. The problem of junior schoolchildren’s volitional adjusting development is given through the research of emotional and motivational spheres of a personality. The focus is on the concept of volitional development by G.G. Kravtsov who considers will to be an “intelligent initiative”. The given concept contains two indivisible components: conciseness of volitional act and active position of personality as a subject of his own activity. The article dwells upon the reasons which have a negative impact on the development and education of junior schoolchildren. One of them is lack of their active position as a subject of activity. The results of the research enabled the author to differentiate three groups of initiative: “low”, “middle”, “high”. These research results showed meaningful distinctions between the groups according to the degree of its intensity. The obtained data allowed to draw the conclusion that the absence of the given personal formation renders negative influence on the development and education of junior schoolchildren. The results of the study will help to complement scientific presentations within the framework of the personality development problem. Besides, they will allow to project more effective psychological content of the program of teachers’ work on forming junior schoolchildren’s educational activity.

The article considers the possibility of using the innovative method of education in the traditional form of education. The relevance of this study is associated with the increasing aggressiveness and a decrease in moral consciousness among junior schoolchildren. The results of the developmental learning experiment are described, which included: a purposeful system of exercises with the use of the game simulation method, the combination of educational activities at off-hour and extracurricular activities with the mandatory inclusion of mini-situations of moral orientation. The stages of classes are described in detail: organizational, practical, communicative, and educational ones. The article shows that special attention is paid to the methods of organizing game simulation, as well as to reading of texts with emphasis on interpretation, since misunderstanding of the meaning can cause tension which may result in conflict. The study confirms the effectiveness of the method described; the lessons contribute to the development of cooperation skills, the sustainable priority of observing moral norms of behavior, and the development of moral consciousness. Recommendations for specialists are suggested.

The article suggests a definition of psychological freedom, central to which is spiritual fullness, allowing to consider the development of psychological freedom as a means of addictive behavior prevention. The results of the empirical research aimed at studying the peculiarities of manifestations of psychological freedom of an adolescent are described in this article. It is shown that the manifestations of psychological freedom in adolescence are different from its manifestations in older students due to the lack of autonomy, self-management, meaning and the way they understand happiness. Besides, the relation of these manifestations with a strong propensity to dependent behavior is stressed. It is revealed that low conciseness of life and happiness increases the tendency to the dependent behavior. The basis of them is a teenager’s spirituality that allows to consider spirituality to be one of the main characteristics of psychological freedom of an individual. On the basis of the obtained results the three-level model of forming teenagers and senior pupils’ psychological freedom is presented.