The results of empirical research highlighting the most and the least expressed components of psychological well-being of a modern person are presented in the article. The interrelations of psychological well-being with morals and religiousness of a personality are also revealed. It is shown that the components of a modern person's psychological well-being structure have different intensity. It is revealed that some particular components of morals and religiousness have impact on the way the person experiences either well-being or ill-being. It is noted that the more a person in his behaviour relies on religious beliefs or the more often he resorts to religious praxes, the more psychologically safe he feels.

The article presents the results of empirical study of regularities of transformation of patriotism into nationalism depending on the psychosocial development of personality. The purpose of the study was to identify and analyze the relationship of patriotic, nationalistic, and neutral-negative ethno-national attitudes with the features of psychosocial development among representatives of modern Russian youth. Basing on the results of theoretical analysis and empirical research the authors conclude that there are regular connections between nationalist attitudes and characteristics of the psychosocial development of a personality.

The author analyses a complex of the textual categories termed as perspective, retrospection and prospection and gives his own characteristics of a new textual category of introspection. The functional homogeneity of the textual categories under discussion is stated. Two kinds of such homogeneity are distinguished: the narrative functional homogeneity and leading to lacunarity semantic one. The author places focus on new issues referring to the textual category of introspection to be further investigated.

Analyzing the views of prominent representatives natsiologii authors form a conceptual system starting positions, allowing to determine the coordinates of the essential realities of ethno-national relations. The logic of the article leads to the understanding of nation formation accelerated as the historical continuity of the process of deepening social polygenic, characterized by a plurality of links and causal, which is organically built ethno-national substance developing the system from the simple (ethnic) to the complex (national).

The article analyzes social and political ideas of K. N. Leontyev in terms of his attitude to the progress and development in social, cultural and political aspects on the basis of aesthetic criteria. The idea of aesthetic reality perception is central in Leontyev's theoretical researches which have not only cultural nature, but also philosophical and political ones. One of the most important concepts in Leontyev's theory is “aesthetics of life", which includes not only the beauty of phenomena, but other spheres of society's life, and is based on the principles of diversity and confrontation. It can be stated that Leontyev's criticism of the liberal-egalitarian progress was formed on the basis of aesthetical perception of the world.

The article is devoted to solving one of the most urgent and complex problems of modern multicultural society. Facing the growth of ethnic public associations and organizations engaged in multidirectional activities, it is important to solve the problem of coordination of such activity. This acute problem stimulates scientific research being done to study the aspect of managing such activity. The article presents the results of the research focused on revealing the deep psychological mechanisms of management activity of the heads of ethnic social organizations, among which the author identifies the mechanism aimed at achieving a synergistic effect.

The mechanism of contextual influence on perception of a vowel sound is described. Known experiments on perception of the English vowels of synthetic speech are discussed, especially those showing the change of the test word identification depending on the formant structure of an introductory sentence. New interpretation of the discussed experiments results is given. An experiment on changing the categorical perception of a vowel in the context of natural speech is shown.

The article considers the problem of studying the need-motivational sphere of teenagers who tend to become the Internet-addicted. Using M. Rokich's techniques the authors point out and rank two classes of values of the risk group adolescents: terminal and instrumental ones. The analysis of the data shows that on the background of the lack of a clear hierarchy of motives, the Internet-addicted teenagers' dominant values are the following: striving for entertainment, public recognition, independence, and material wealth. At the same time, such values as: active life, creative activity, spiritual and physical development, intellectual development, happiness of others, happy family life, and love, are placed in the lower position in the hierarchy of values. The results presented in the article allow to improve preventive work with adolescents, who tend to become the Internet-addicted.

This article deals with the problem of the use of expert assessments in the process of the early detection of the factors of teenagers' drug addictive behavior. On the basis of experts' assessments the risk factors of the formation of drug addiction behavior are given. The following ranking of the risk factors made it possible to identify and graphically display the most riskimetrick ones. In conclusion, the article indicates the scope for implementing the study results.

The article studies socio-political changes in the post-Soviet Russia through the context of radical reforming processes. The article compares the processes of evolutionary reforming with the radical ones, aiming at the identification of liberal reforms of the 1990s. The author concludes that the notion of “reforming" is not suitable for those changes. It is stated that their radicalism could bring the country to the national catastrophe. Positive effect of measures taken on strengthening the Russian power vertical in the 2000s is noted as a way of overcoming radical reforming methods.

In the article the authors present the analysis of the complex social and cognitive motives, formed under the influence of the family, which is largely the academic motivation of a teenager. Social influence on a teenager's identity and as a result on his academic motivation is carried out in different ways and occurs mainly as a result of a purposeful process of upbringing and social learning. In the process of education the influence of a number of conditions should be taken into account: social and material situation of the family, parents' occupation, their education and value orientation. Deformation of a parent family results in negative consequences in the development of an adolescent's personality and interferes with his educational activities.

The article considers the features of the political risks that arise in the process of regulatory powers redistribution in modern states, as well as the specific ways of controlling them. The importance of both opportuneness and efficiency of regulatory powers redistribution is highlighted. Besides, the tendency of their concentration in the hands of the basic state stakeholders is mentioned, the current international background affecting internal and foreign policy of different countries being stressed. It is acknowledged in general that in the process of government functions redistribution there are lots of political risks. But provided that they are effectively controlled, it is possible to maximize the efficacy of such process, especially using self-regulatory institutions.

This article attempts to justify the role of the state youth policy in the process of modernization of the Russian state. The main approaches in defining the state youth policy have been identified, as well as the problem areas in the context of legal and regulatory framework. It is stated that the comprehensive legal and regulatory framework currently operates in the context of the regional youth policy. The political analysis of the operating conditions and priority directions with regard to the state youth policy of Volgograd region has been conducted. The recommendations on the improvement of the state programs within the area of the state youth policy are provided.

The article gives a brief overview of the main constituents of political linguistics with the release of their characterological parameters; It shows the step by step procedure for the establishment of a hierarchical system due to political relations between the components of linguistics. The structuring of the main components into the conceptual system is done. The results of the ranking of the main components of political linguistics as a conceptual system are given.

The ongoing civil war in Ukraine represents an extreme display of the delegitimation of Poroshenko's regime in the east of the country and its low legitimacy level over the territories controlled by Kiev. Among the key preconditions of this situation one can highlight social and political disintegrity of the ukrainians, multidirectional vectors of the economic development of the west and east regions, peculiarities of the geopolitical position of Ukraine, the failure of governing and significant external influence on the legitimacy processes.

Basing on Russian textbooks and readers of 1840 - 1850 the author analyses the formation of pedagogical canon in relation to Mikhail Lermontov's poetry and prose. The article analyses over 20 textbooks and readers of that period, as well as the university textbooks. The spectrum of perceiving Lermontov's works by the authors of the textbooks and readers is outlined. The main tendencies of the pedagogical canon formation in the period mentioned are presented. The list of all Lermontov's works included into the textbooks of 1840 - 1850 is given. The most influential textbooks of that time (by Galakhov, Gretch, Zelenetsky) and their impact on the tradition of including Lermontov's works into schoolbooks are mentioned.

The article deals with social economic factors of terrorism, as well as with the impact of terrorism on the economic development of the territories. The authors review attempts of different scientists to establish connections between various factors, such as: the material well-being of the population, education level, urbanization, and terrorist activity. Much attention is given to several mathematical models, which are regarded as possible mechanisms for predicting the dynamics of terrorist activity or indicators of social economic indices dependency on the number of terrorist attacks, or their victims.

The correlation between epithet, metaphor and comparison is given as an opposition where the unmarked element is comparison. The basis of epithet is the full comparative construction with adjective. On this basis epithet is created. The basis of metaphor is a reduced incomplete comparative construction, because it would be a mistake to emphasize separate characteristics. Unlike metaphor, epithet is a word from which any derivative forms can be made. Epithet is represented as a new independent language unit, but not as an indirect additional meaning of the word which is already known.

The current article is devoted to a comparative analysis between Anton Chekhov and Lu Xun's works, the subject of which is medicine. The medical theme in this article includes a group of doctor images and names of diseases, which play an important role in comprehending the works of the authors. The article has studied fundamental works of Anton Chekhov "Ionich" and "Poprygunya", as well as the stories written by Lu Xun, including "Brothers", "Tomorrow" and "Father's Illness". In conclusion, the influence of medical education on the writers' creative activity and the reasons for certain themes in the works and their evaluations are summarized. Although both through the world outlook approach and in terms of literary descriptiveness the similarities between the two authors are obvious, there are still a number of differences between them related to their personal attitude to the professionof a doctor.

The article analyzes the structure of the root word-building word-families. Besides, their typology is revealed basing on different grounds: according to the parts of speech of the root words; according to the amount of words in the word-family; according to the structure of the word-family etc. The article presents a typology of word-building word-families and clusters. Systemic derivative ties of specific types of denomination in the modern Russian language are identified. Comprehensive characterization of word-building paradigms of word-families from various thematic groups is carried out.