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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS CAUSING TENDENCY TO XENOPHOBIA AT STUDENTS OF HUMANITARIAN COLLEGES
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS CAUSING TENDENCY TO XENOPHOBIA AT STUDENTS OF HUMANITARIAN COLLEGES

Author(s): Anna Litvinova, Konstantin Tarasov
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Higher Education
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: psychological determinants; psychological safety of the educational environment; xenophobia; xenophobia mechanisms;

Summary/Abstract: Research analysis features of the educational environment of higher education institution and personal characteristics of students depending on the tendency to xenophobia. 50 students of humanitarian higher school settlements took part in the research. According to the criterion of «proximity - remoteness» in relation to the category «us - them» two groups of students were singled out - with more and with less expressed tendency to xenophobia’s manifestation. As a result it was established that the tendency for xenophobia depended on some external determinants like culture levels of fellow students, personal and psychological characteristics of teachers, and on such internal determinant as traditional cultural values (interesting work, sense of duty, irreconcilability) and application of socially approved ways of a goal-setting.

  • Issue Year: 3/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 60-66
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English