Comparative Analysis of the Level of Psychological Well-Being Among RF and RA Students

Authors

Elina ASRIYAN Yerevan State University
Nare KARAPETYAN Yerevan State University
Anna SAMOKHVALOVA Kostroma State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24231/wisdom.v21i1.686

Keywords:

pandemic, war, psychological well-being, students

Abstract

The rapid changes, crises, pandemics, and wars in the modern world introduce new requirements to a person and his/her adaptive resources. All these above-mentioned external factors in the form of separate stressors, and sometimes all together combined, have a complex effect on a person’s psychological well-being. Taking into consideration the need to clarify the impact of various factors on PWB (psychological well-being), the authors of the article set a goal to study the PWB characteristics among the Republic of Armenia (from now on, RA) and Russian Federation (hereinafter – RF) students. The research hypothesis was that RA and RF students might have different levels of PWB expression. The correlation analysis has shown that the indicators of PWB of different ethnocultural groups acting in different social contexts have certain peculiarities of expression and are quantitatively comparable.

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Author Biographies

Elina ASRIYAN, Yerevan State University

PhD in Psychology, Representative in the Bologna Follow-Up Group, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia. The areas of scientific interests include psychology of emotional sphere and psychology of mass communication, social psychology, psychology of image. Elina Asriyan is the author of 60 and more articles and methodological guides. Recent publications: “Personal Potential in Overcoming the Socio-Psychological Consequences of War and Pandemic”, “The Study of Well-being Level in Fairytales”, “Branding Specificities of the Armenian “Velvet Revolution”, “Communicative Difficulties of Russian and Armenian Adolescents: A Sociocultural Aspect”.

Nare KARAPETYAN, Yerevan State University

PhD in Psychology, Researcher Assistant at Scientific Research Center of Psychology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia. The areas of scientific interests include management psychology, advertising and PR, psychology of influence, decision-making psychology. Nare Karapetyan is the author of 10 and more articles. Recent publications: “Psychological Conditionality of Professional Reflection and Behavioral Strategies in Situations of Problematic Interaction”, “Psychological Criteria for Assessing Personality and Behavioral Strategies in the Face of Overcoming Problematic Interactions”, “The Study of Well-being Level in Fairytales”, “The Study of Peculiarities of Social Self-Control and Coping Behavior”.

Anna SAMOKHVALOVA, Kostroma State University

PhD in Pedagogy, Dr. of Psychology, Director of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology, Kostroma State University, Kostroma, Russia; editor in chief of the scientific Bulletin of the KSU. Series “Pedagogy. Psychology. Sociokinetics”. The area of scientific interests: the psychology of communication, theory of difficult communication at different stages of ontogenesis, child and adolescent psychology, psychology of well-being, family psychology. She is the author of 5 monographs, 7 teaching aids and more than 200 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Communicative Difficulties of a Child in a Multicultural Social Environment”, “Structural and Functional Model of Psychological Well-Being of Modern Students”.

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2022-03-28

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ASRIYAN, E., KARAPETYAN, N., & SAMOKHVALOVA, A. (2022). Comparative Analysis of the Level of Psychological Well-Being Among RF and RA Students. WISDOM, 21(1), 39–43. https://doi.org/10.24231/wisdom.v21i1.686

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