Abstract
The paper is devoted to studying regional identity as a psychological interconnection with the territory of residence. The objective of the research is studying the peculiarities of an inhabitant’s mental representation of the childhood experience of this psychological interconnection. The research is based on the narrative method. As a result of factor analysis, the following six factors were specified in the psychological structure of the regional identity experience representation: “Activity”, “Estrangement”, “Readiness”, “Satisfaction”, “Regulativity”, “Modality”. Proceeding from the two samples compared, the following peculiarities of the childhood regional identity experience were revealed. Those who experienced regional identity in the childhood are more deeply involved in the experience, without isolating themselves from the internal and external circumstances that entailed the experience; they demonstrate a more positive attitude and are open to such experience. It appears that regulativity of the regional identity experience serves as a resource for its formation in youth. The obtained results can create the basis of a psychology pedagogy program of children’s regional identity formation (including migrant children) realized in educational organizations.
Highlights
1.1 Relevance of research on regional identityThe ethnic map of the most of modern states is characterized with a high level of variety and ethno-religious heterogeneity of the indigenous populations
Proceeding from the two samples compared, the following peculiarities of the childhood regional identity experience were revealed. Those who experienced regional identity in the childhood are more deeply involved in the experience, without isolating themselves from the internal and external circumstances that entailed the experience; they demonstrate a more positive attitude and are open to such experience
Such a personality demonstrates a higher level of readiness to reproduction of this experience in life and feels satisfied with the psychological interconnection with the region of residence
Summary
1.1 Relevance of research on regional identityThe ethnic map of the most of modern states is characterized with a high level of variety and ethno-religious heterogeneity of the indigenous populations. 1.1 Relevance of research on regional identity. Being a cross-disciplinary one, the concept of regional identity in Russia is regarded within sociology, political science, geography, cultural studies [1, 2, 6, 7, 12, 16, 18, 19, 22, 24]. Psychological researches of regional identity are generally focused on the subjective interconnection between the personal internal space and the external space of a person’s existence [11, 23]. The psychological connection of a person to the external environment in English-language scientific literature is termed as "place identity", "sense of place", "place attachment" [14, 17]. By the majority of the researchers, regional identity is termed as a type of social identity focused on a geographically localized territory. Holders of regional identity take a complex of emotional experiences concerning the region of their residence and correlate their life goals, values and activities with social and cultural processes occurring there
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