The article is devoted to the problem of empirical research of social maturity. The author conducted a study aimed at identifying gender differences in assessing social maturity. Besides, differences in assessing social self-determination of those respondents who have a job and unemployed are mentioned. Methods, based on the complex program of A.B. Kupreychenko program and L.M. Smirnov’s methodology “Basic values and antivalues of Russians”, were used for selecting empirical material. As a result of the study, it was concluded that there are reliable sex differences in assessing values and antivalues (women are characterized by positive values in the field of interpersonal interaction, while men are characterized by the values of power and prestige, as well as such anti- values as “cruelty”, “revenge”, “lack of spirituality”, “debauchery” are more acceptable “). Significant differences were also revealed between working and non-working respondents in assessing the present and future social status, economic status and personal maturity.

The aim of this paper is to present the first results of the project “Training Apartment” for orphans with severe intellectual disabilities, which is designed to develop their life skills and social perceptions. Special arrangements of the project and methods for assessing the effectiveness of the development of social and domestic skills and independence in everyday life are presented. Comparative analysis shows that the orphans’ residence in training apartments is an effective method of skills development and formation of social and domestic perceptions. Monitoring of independence in everyday life is an effective instrument for assessment. Children’s skills development and formation of social and domestic perceptions differ according to their developmental level. The results will be useful for professionals working with children with severe intellectual disabilities.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the socio-psychological characteristics of the representatives of the “Baby-Boomer” generation, the identification of group differences in their collective memory and the features of the present and future representations. The sample consisted of 105 respondents aged from 56 to 70 years. The block of techniques contained 7 questionnaires. The results show that despite the considerable homogeneity of the socio-psychological characteristics of the representatives of the “Baby-Boomer” generation, various ways of constructing images of the present and the future among adherents of different representations of the history of the country were discovered.

The article is devoted to the topic of determination of interrelations of the value-semantic setting and models of family interaction. This research was conducted by testing 220 people using three questionnaires to define settings and types of family systems according to D. H. Olson. The author performed the factor analysis of indices and correlation analysis of the two groups: men and women. The correlation analysis shows statistically important interrelations between defined choice of family interaction and unique settings. The results of the analysis are shown in the proposed tables. The tendencies for changing family models towards “merging” are indicated, based on the analysis of the “real” and “desired” model of the family system.

The purpose of the article is to consider some family and environmental predictors of bullying (school baiting) of younger adolescents against their peers. The study involved 758 teenagers aged 10-13 years from schools in Moscow, Moscow region and Astrakhan. It has been revealed that boys of 11 to 13 years old are bullied more often at school, while girls more often become the aggressors who use the verbal and social victimization of the victim in the process of baiting. It is noted that the high level of parents’ cruelty and aggression is connected with the possibility of systematic violence and victimization of peers. The list of protective means is defined. According to the children they will protect them from baiting at school. The authors prove the need for a more wide consideration of the school baiting problem in a complex socio-psychological context.

The article discloses the impact of billboard advertising on the consumer and describes the way he perceives it. The role of this kind of advertising influence is stressed, as well as its effectiveness among consumers and those who do not consume it. In the result of the experiment performed with the use of the author’s questionnaire, Ch. Osgood’s method of semantic differential and express-testing among 55 people aging from 21 to 42 (18 men and 37 women) the respondents’ attitude to advertising and their behavior are revealed. The consequences of its use are also studied. The results of the research enabled to single out the groups of advertising influence and formulate the psychological portrait for each sample and for the “ideal advertising”. The attempt to describe the semantic space of men and women is made. So special structure of the way billboard advertising samples are perceived by the audience was defined. Besides, the specificity of advertising sample perception and the image of the “ideal advertising” were found out

The article presents the concept of social psychology development as a process of the natural-historical transformation of psychological science. Its dynamics is traced from Aristotle up to the present time. The emergence of social and psychological ideas within psychology is shown. Significant contribution of Aristotle, W. Wundt, L.S. Vygotsky and S. L. Rubinstein is stated. The thesis of social psychology unicity as a link (discipline) of the system of psychological sciences is supported. The mixture of social psychology with sociological psychologism is revealed. The idea that all branches of psychology, including social psychology, have the same object is given.

Data of empirical research of interrelation of the conscious self-regulation of educational activity, personal features and academic motivation with subjective well-being of pupils of the 5th grade are presented. To examine conscious self-regulation the following methods were used: «Self-Regulation Profile of Learning Activity Questionnaire - SRPLAQ» by V.I. Morosanova Russian adaptation of Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS), Academic Motivation Scale for Schoolchildren (AMS-S), Russian adaptation of the “Big Five Questionnaire - Children (BFQ-C)”. The correlation analysis allowed to reveal significant connections of subjective well-being of schoolchildren with peculiarities of conscious self-regulation of educational activity, personal factors and academic motivation. Students with high subjective well-being are characterized by significantly higher rates of self-regulation, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, intrinsic motivation than students with low levels.

The article is aimed at describing an empirical study to identify men and women’s age-specific characteristics of personal resources and coping strategies. The leading research methods were diagnostic and static ones. They enabled to reveal the presence of significant differences in the characteristics of personal resources and coping strategies of men and women. Based on the results of the empirical study, the hypothesis that the personal resources and coping strategies are age specific is confirmed. It was found that young people prefer to use non-adaptive coping strategies: “escape-avoidance”, more mature ones use “self-control” and “problem-solving” adaptive strategies. The obtained research results can be used in forecasting possible risks in the process of overcoming and experiencing stress at young and mature age. Besides, the data obtained can be used in the consultative work of a psychologist.

The article presents the results of the investigation the factor structure of multidimensional discursive capabilities diagnosing test. The development of the test was based on the material of everyday discourse, the maintenance of which requires the solution of various communicative tasks. The stimulus material of the test was based on a priori ideas about the 4 phases of everyday conversation. The three-factor structure of discursive capabilities was revealed with the exploratory factor analysis: “changing the direction of the conversation,” “initiating a conversation,” and “maintaining a conversation.” The use of structural equation modeling (SEM) confirmed the three-factor model of discursive capabilities. The conservation of the factor structure of the short version discursive capabilities of the test is shown. Diagnosing discursive capabilities of the test short version are presented.

The article presents the results of the study of the psycho-emotional tension of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Traffic Control employees with various types of behavioral activity, namely “AB” and “B1”. Sixty employees took part in the research. They were tested according to the following procedures: “Clinical questionnaire for the detection and evaluation of neurotic conditions” (by K. Yakhin and D. Mendeleyevich), “The level of subjective control” (by J. Rotter, in adaptation of E. Bazhina, E. Golynkina, L. Etkind), “Scale of life quality assessment” (by N. Vodopyanova), “Type of behavioral activity” (by L. Vasserman and N. Gumenyuk). The results were processed using the methods of descriptive statistics and the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test. The analysis of their propensity to neurotic states, satisfaction with life in various spheres of life activity, as well as control over life situations, is given. The peculiarities of psycho-emotional tension of employees with different work experience - less than 5 years, from 5 to 10 years, and more than 10 years of experience are separately examined.