PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE STRUCTURE OF CONFIDENCE OF THE CHINESE AND RUSSIAN STUDENTS
The article reflects the results of the study, which allowed us to identify the factor structure of the Chinese students’ confidence and also to compare the features of confidence of Chinese and Russian students. Confidence is one of the most important basic personality traits, and it has no ethnic boundaries, i.e. everyone has the opportunity to be confident. The study of students’ confidence of different ethnic groups is represented in the framework of systemic-functional approach, which was developed by Professor A.I. Krupnov. This concept represents both the methodological and theoretical basis of this study, and it is also its practical basis. Empirical results were obtained while studying the sample of Chinese and Russian student. The obtained results allowed us to identify the four factor structure of confidence of Chinese and Russian students. Each one is represented in a special way, namely, the factorial structure of confidence of Chinese students consists of egocentric personally directed goals, of productive awareness given certain difficulties. Russian students’ factor structure consists of socially significant goals, of the motivational dynamic block, of the set of the difficulties and of “inaccurate awareness of its regulation”. Everyone should know that any personality trait can be developed and adjusted. It is not inherited and does not depend on parents. Many circumstances such as the environment, attitudes, culture, etc. help us be confident/unconfident people. The group of subjects, selected for the study, faces all these circumstances.