Developing Ethnic Identity As A Condition Of Foreign Students’ Learned Helplessness Correction

Abstract

Academic mobility in the modern multicultural educational space is a factor of increasing the education competitiveness; it contributes to the improvement of educational and scientific productivity is a tool for building a network of interactions, development and innovation. However, university students adaptation to foreign culture requires additional personal resources. The issue of a state of learned helplessness correction in the context of academic mobility, when a young person moves to another country to receive education, is of particular relevance. The new social and cultural environment, uncontrolled stressful events associated with moving, have unpredictable and uncontrollable impact on migrants, causing the complexity of the adaptation process and the emergence of a state of learned helplessness. The research objective is to develop practical recommendations for psychological services of educational institutions to work with foreign students, aimed at preventing and correcting the state of learned helplessness through the development of positive ethnic identity. The leading approach to the study of the problem was the systematization of theoretical and empirical data on positive ethnic identity and learned helplessness. The study resulted in understanding of the relationship of learned helplessness and positive ethnic identity, which allowed offering general practical recommendations for the organization of a multicultural educational space in the university in order to develop foreign students positive ethnic identity, and exactly the prevention and correction of learned helplessness.