Abstract
The study was supported by the State Committee for Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia within the Armenian-Russian joint research project “The psychological aspect of the person’s self-understanding of national identity in the context of historical experience in the post-Soviet space (the study of young people of Russia and Armenia)” This paper presents generalized results of a two-year empirical study. The sample involved Armenian respondents from Armenia (310 persons) and Armenians residing
in the Kuban region (307 persons). Diagnostic tools of the present study included: (a) a modified technique of “graph-schemes” by B. V. Kaigorodov; (b) method of semantic differential; (c) questionnaire by S. Schwarz and V. Bilski; and (d) techniques for studying types of self-interpretation by T. Singelis and T. DeCicco. Findings of the present study concern (a) a nucleus of ethnic normativity in Armenian young
people, (b) statistically significant differences in representations of an ethno-cultural ideal in the respondents of the titular Armenian ethnos and the Armenian diaspora, (c) elements of self-image in the context of ethno-cultural norms and values. Self-understanding of ethno-cultural identity in the titular ethnos had a number of features: (a) the national and the civil were closely associated with each other in the feeling of belonging to a nation, its historical past, and cultural originality; (b) the
respondents of the titular ethnos perceived civic consciousness as a personal value. In the Armenian diaspora, the multiplicity of identities led to a sense of responsibility for various communities and comprehension of ethnic cohesion as a personal value; this was a distinctive feature of self-understanding of ethno-cultural identity in this group of respondents.
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