Actual Identity Research Articles

Speaker Recognition System Using Hybrid of MFCC and RCNN with HCO Algorithm Optimization

Though there are advancements in speaker recognition technology, available systems often fail to correctly recognize speakers especially in noisy environments. The use of Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) has been improved using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) yet difficulties in achieving high accuracies still exists. Hybrid algorithms combining MFCC and Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks (RCNN) have been found to be promising. In this research features from speech signals were extracted for speaker recognition, to denoise the signals, design and develop a DFT-based denoising system using spectrum subtraction and to develop a speaker recognition method for the Verbatim Transcription using MFCC. The DFT was used to transform the sampled audio signal waveform into a frequency-domain signal. RCNN was used to model the characteristics of speakers based on their voice samples, and to classify them into different categories or identities. The novelty of the research was that it used MFCC integrated with RCNN and optimized with Host-Cuckoo Optimization (HCO) algorithm. HCO algorithm is capable of further weight optimization through the process of generating fit cuckoos for best weights. It also captured the temporal dependencies and long-term information. The system was tested and validated on audio recordings from different personalities from the National Assembly of Kenya. The results were compared with the actual identity of the speakers to confirm accuracy. The performance of the proposed approach was compared with two other existing speaker recognition the traditional approaches being MFCC-CNN and Linear Predictive Coefficients (LPC)-CNN. The comparison was based the Equal Error Rate (EER), False Rejection Rate (FRR), False Match Rate (FMR), and True Match Rate (TMR). Results show that the proposed algorithm outperformed the others in maintaining a lowest EER, FMR, FRR and highest TMR.

Mental Health Study and Psychological Factors Impacting the Behaviour Among College Students in India

Health risk behaviour, sometimes referred to as health impairing behaviour, is dangerous when it comes to children since it might have unfavourable consequences that last into adulthood. Although not entirely inherited, anxiety disorders can also result from the use of drugs, such as alcohol and caffeine, as well as the withdrawal from particular medications. They frequently occur in conjunction with other mental health issues, including actual depression, bipolar disorder, identity issues, and food issues. The phrase "nervousness" refers to four types of contacts that a person may experience: dissociative unease, physical tension, mental fear, and bodily symptoms. Feelings associated with unease range from mild anxiety to depressive bouts. While there are other psychological and therapeutic conditions that can mimic the signs of a tension disorder, this study outlines the elements that contribute to anxiety and how they impact students' mental health. The results and conclusions of the data collection process using a questionnaire were presented by the researcher. The researcher also talked about some inferences drawn from the participants' comments in addition to this.

Work-family interface during COVID-19: a sociolinguistic study of working mums’ identity and mental health

BackgroundThe dramatic reconfigurations of work-family roles and social boundaries resulting from the social restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic led working mums to look for online sites as spaces of emotional support and regulation where they could vent their emotions, share their concerns and griefs, and seek advice. They also became interactional spaces where mums’ relevant identities were reassessed and enacted as they aimed to balance work-family roles and improve their wellbeing. The paper explores how working mums discursively negotiated their multiple identities in an online support forum during times of global struggle, how these identity constructions reflect the domains of Work-Family Conflict (WFC) and how working mums perceived these identities are related to their mental health.Methods127 posts of Chilean working mums published in a public online support forum for working mums collected during the first half of 2020 were analysed in three phases. The first one involved a thematic analysis to identify themes and subthemes related to working mums’ identity construction in the data. The second phase involved conducting a narrative analysis of working mums’ microstorias in order to identify a master narrative crafted by these working mums, and contesting and conforming ideologies of motherhood, among others. Finally, the third phase involved a fine-grained discourse analysis of the most representative extracts illustrating working mums’ identity negotiation.ResultsThe sociolinguistic analysis showed that working mums’ discourses displayed three themes of self-reflection, namely, diminishing self-care, reassessing their self, and enhancing self through self-care. Identity-related sub-themes for each main theme are discussed and discursively analysed. Two main points are emphasised: (1) the identity that was most salient in working mums’ discourse was their personal identity (rather than work-family roles and identities), and (2) microstorias allowed working mums to challenge the hegemonic power of dominant discourses around their identities and their work-family roles.ConclusionsThe study shows that a sociolinguistic approach to the exploration of working mums’ identity negotiation is useful to highlight the ways in which mums contest binary assumptions of work-family roles and the need to reconsider working mums’ life domains so that they reflect working mums’ actual identity needs and lived experiences. Future lines of research are outlined.

An efficient method for multi-view sheep face recognition

Sheep face recognition is an efficient and non-contact identification technology; however, it has not been widely adopted due to the time-consuming and labor-intensive nature of traditional methods for collecting sheep face images. To address these issues, we developed a multi-view sheep face image acquisition device. A total of 50 experimental sheep were used in this study to construct a multi-view sheep face dataset. Moreover, a high-precision sheep face recognition model called T2T-ViT-SFR was developed in this study. T2T-ViT-SFR combines multiple optimization strategies to improve the performance of the model. Specifically, we introduced the Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) attention mechanism into the backbone to enhance the model's ability to learn useful information while suppressing non-essential information. The LayerScale module was embedded in the transformer of the backbone to prevent model collapse as the network depth increased. Meanwhile, the Additive Angular Margin Loss (ArcFace) was integrated at the head to address the challenge posed by the high similarity among sheep faces. Experiments on the multi-view sheep face dataset showed that T2T-ViT-SFR achieved the best recognition performance after pre-training, with an accuracy of 95.9% and an F1-score of 95.5%, significantly superior to the sheep face recognition models proposed in previous studies. Compared to T2T-ViT-24, the accuracy and F1-score of T2T-ViT-SFR increased by 2.6% and 2.1%, respectively, demonstrating the effectiveness of the optimization strategies proposed in this study. This study provides a feasible new strategy for actual sheep identity recognition, achieving a complete recognition process from image acquisition to recognition result output.

Preferences and Travel Motivations of Pink Tourists Among Filipinos

The purpose of this study was to determine the preferences and driving forces behind LGBT, or pink, tourism. LGBT tourism is referred to as "pink tourism." (Greenberg, Peter (2007). This abbreviation, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, is frequently used to refer to the LGBT community. The motivations behind Pink Tourists' travel choices will be examined in this study. The research was split up into four sections: Phase 1 dealt with determining the demographic profile of the correspondents in terms of sexual orientation/gender, age, status, income, travel frequency, travel companion, and accommodation preference. Phase 2 focused on factors in choosing a travel destination among pink tourists, Phase 3 on perceiving the importance of motivation when considering travel, and Phase 4 on identifying the importance of factors when selecting a travel destination. For this study, fifty correspondents were chosen to take part. We used the Research Paradigm as the process of the study to able to get the results of the feedback and get a necessary adjustment.Purposive sampling was employed to select the participating correspondents. The findings indicated that the majority of Pink tourists—who are primarily bisexual—discovered they belong to the LGBTQ community between the ages of 21 and 25. BPO businesses tend to employ members of the LGBTQ community due to their anti-discrimination policies. Many of them made the decision to remain unmarried in order to travel with their buddies. LGBTQ people wish to travel twice a year for leisure, enjoyment, vacation, and to experience life; if they feel safe, accepted, and treated equally, they will remain for less than a week. These days, people plan their trips one to three months in advance by booking their journeys online. They also enjoy traveling for enjoyment and entertainment. When traveling, Pink Tourism prefers to go with friends since it makes them feel more at ease and allows them to express their actual gender identity. Here are our suggestions based on the findings of our investigation: LGBTQ people should be permitted to use restrooms according to their gender identity and comfort level in restaurants, hotels, and other establishments. In addition, hotels ought to offer family rooms, which may accommodate a sizable gathering, in the event that a guest house or full house is unavailable at a specific location. Finally, LGBTQ-friendly events and activities should be added to destinations so that people may enjoy their trip, unwind, and meet new people more comfortably.

Hello, You’ve been hacked: a study of victim notification preferences

ABSTRACT In the context of identity theft, raising victims’ awareness is crucial to mitigate ensuing fraud. This study employs a two-part approach to evaluate the mode and content preferences for identity theft victimization notifications as well as recipients’ willingness to engage with these notifications. Notably, results underscore young adults’ inclination toward text message notifications featuring legitimizing credentials, signifying authenticity, and fostering rapid responses. Surprisingly, a randomized controlled trial yields a counterintuitive finding: actual identity theft victims display restrained interaction with text-based notifications, regardless of credential presence. The implications of these unexpected patterns guide theory and aid in the development of proactive policy initiatives.

A Blockchain-Based Secure Sharing Scheme for Electrical Impedance Tomography Data

Real-time electrical impedance tomography (EIT) data sharing is becoming increasingly necessary, due to the extensive use of EIT technology in various sectors, including material analysis, biomedicine, and industrial process monitoring. The prevalence of portable EIT equipment and remote imaging technology has led to a predominance of centralized storage, Internet protocol transmission, and certificates from certificate authorities (CA) in telemedicine data. This has resulted in compromised data security, network communication delays, high CA maintenance costs, increased risks of medical data privacy breaches, and low security. Therefore, this paper offers a consortia blockchain-based method for exchanging EIT data that addresses security and integrity concerns during data storage and exchange, while maintaining transparency and traceability. Proprietary re-encryption techniques are employed to guarantee traceability when exchanging anonymous data, enabling precise control over data access. This scheme serves to protect both data and identity privacy, as well as to trace the actual identity of potential malicious users, while also thwarting any coordinated efforts between partially trusted parties and data requesters seeking unauthorized access to confidential information. Additionally, a combination of blockchain and InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) distributed storage technology is utilized to ease the burden of EIT data storage. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed solution were validated through a series of experiments, demonstrating its ability to effectively prevent data tampering and misuse, reduce data management costs, and enhance the efficiency and quality of data sharing.

Research on Blockchain Transaction Privacy Protection Methods Based on Deep Learning

To address the challenge of balancing privacy protection with regulatory oversight in blockchain transactions, we propose a regulatable privacy protection scheme for blockchain transactions. Our scheme utilizes probabilistic public-key encryption to obscure the true identities of blockchain transaction participants. By integrating commitment schemes and zero-knowledge proof techniques with deep learning graph neural network technology, it provides privacy protection and regulatory analysis of blockchain transaction data. This approach not only prevents the leakage of sensitive transaction information, but also achieves regulatory capabilities at both macro and micro levels, ensuring the verification of the legality of transactions. By adopting an identity-based encryption system, regulatory bodies can conduct personalized supervision of blockchain transactions without storing users’ actual identities and key data, significantly reducing storage computation and key management burdens. Our scheme is independent of any particular consensus mechanism and can be applied to current blockchain technologies. Simulation experiments and complexity analysis demonstrate the practicality of the scheme.

Naturalised Hakea. What species are we actually talking about in Europe?

ABSTRACT Hakea sericea Schrad. & J.C.Wendl. (Proteaceae) is a shrub or small tree native to south-eastern Australia. The species has been introduced to other countries; it has naturalised and become invasive in France, New Zealand, Portugal, and South Africa. During the review process of the Pest Risk Analysis for the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) on Hakea sericea in 2017, the actual identity of the plant causing major negative biodiversity impact in Portugal was questioned. Flowering material from Portugal and additional collections from South Africa and New Zealand were collected in order to clarify the taxonomical status. To make the survey on the proper identity of the Hakea plants invasive in Portugal more concise, all Hakea species encountered in Portugal, France, South Africa and New Zealand were included. For morphological distinction of the species the length of the pistil and fruit characters were used. For molecular analysis Illumina sequencing in combination with de novo assembly and extraction of loci was used. Results show that invasive populations of Hakea in Portugal belong to H. decurrens R.Br a species that, although very similar and sometimes considered synonymous with H. sericea, can be distinguished both morphologically and on the basis of cpDNA. Both species occur in France and in New Zealand, while only H. sericea occurs in South Africa. Both species are invasive and seem to have similar impacts on biodiversity in invaded ranges. The morphologically similar species H. gibbosa (J.White) Cav. occurs in both New Zealand and South Africa. By adopting the H. sericea sensu lato concept for inclusion of the species on the List of Union Concern pursuant of Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014, a potential legislative controversy can be prevented.

Teacher identities and teacher identity change in pre-service mathematics teachers’ metaphors

ABSTRACT Pre-service middle school mathematics teachers’ descriptions for the metaphors they produced for how they considered themselves as mathematics teachers (actual teacher identities) and how they wanted to be in the future (designated identities) at the end of the third and fourth years of the teacher education programme were analysed via a teacher identity framework focusing on areas of teacher expertise. Participants described their actual teacher identities mostly with the self-referential metaphors in both year levels and expressed the need to improve themselves as mathematics teachers. A hybrid of different expertise areas appeared more in the descriptions of designated teacher identities. There was a decrease in the didactics expert and self-referential metaphors, and an increase in the pedagogical expert and hybrid metaphors from the third year to the fourth year. The increase in the hybrid metaphors revealed that their aim was to become an expert in multiple domains in the future.

Mobile Identity Protection: The Moderation Role of Self-Efficacy

The rapid growth of mobile applications and the associated increased dependency on digital identity raises the growing risk of identity theft and related fraud. Hence, protecting identity in a mobile environment is a problem. This study develops a model that examines the role of identity protection self-efficacy in increasing users’ motivation intentions to achieve actual mobile identity protection. Our research found that self-efficacy significantly affects the relationship between users’ perceived threat appraisal and their motivational intentions for identity protection. The relation between mobile users’ protection, motivational intentions, and actual mobile identity protection actions was also found to be significant. Additionally, the findings revealed the considerable impact of awareness in fully mediating between self-efficacy and actual identity protection. The model and its hypotheses are empirically tested through a survey of 383 mobile users, and the findings are validated through a panel of experts, thus confirming the impact of self-efficacy on an individual’s identity protection in the mobile context.

Common Patterns of Cisgender Use in Public Health Articles and Their Implications for Gender Inclusivity Efforts, 2013‒2020.

Objectives. To identify how "cisgender" has been used in public health articles in recent years relative to the historical origins of the term to mark normative gender and describe systems of social power. Methods. I analyzed 352 US-focused public health articles (2013-2020) using a summative content analysis approach. I traced cisgender use by year and compared it by sample population (cisgender-only, mixed, not cisgender). Results. I identified 4 interlocking and mutually reinforcing patterns of cisgender use: limited and narrow use, undertheorized use, use as the default gender, and reinforcing binary categorization. These patterns largely result from the narrowing of cisgender to a demographic label. Conclusions. Cisgender is primarily used to categorize individual research participants as not transgender rather than to reflect participants' actual identity and experiences within gendered systems of power, which undermines cisgender's potential to support gender-inclusivity efforts and deepen understandings of gender-based health disparities. Public Health Implications. Two paths for creating more robust use of cisgender are (1) supporting gender inclusivity by clarifying and standardizing how and when the demographic category is used and (2) expanding the analytic potential of cisgender by returning to its historical origins as a framework for exposing and explaining patterns of power. (Am J Public Health. 2024;114(2):202-208. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307441).

A Certificateless Anonymous Authentication Scheme for VANETs Based on Ring Signature

There is a potential risk of privacy issues due to the disclosure of sensitive information about vehicles in Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), including their real identities and driving trajectories. Anonymous authentication is an effective method to solve the above problems. Ring signature, a cryptographic primitive, offers the ability to create anonymous authentication schemes wherein the verifier can verify the signer’s legitimacy without having knowledge of their actual identity. Researchers have proposed several schemes that aim to protect privacy and maintain anonymity using ring signatures. However, a major drawback of most of these schemes is the linear correlation between the length of the signature and the number of ring members. Our proposed solution involves the construction of a certificateless anonymous authentication scheme that utilizes ring signature with a significantly reduced signature size, which follows a logarithmic relationship with the number of ring members. Through our analysis and comparison, it can be concluded that the privacy information of vehicles is well protected in our scheme, and the communication cost is significantly reduced compared with the existing protocols.

Constructing and enacting language teacher identities: Distinctive pathways and divergent practices

AbstractThe aim of this study was to explore how English language teachers construct and enact their teacher identities. The data was collected through semi‐structured interviews with four in‐service English language teachers at Turkish public schools. The findings revealed certain identity stabilizers: the fascination with subject and the job, caring for students and the relationships with students and former teachers. Although the teachers took two distinctive pathways—the meant to be route and the higher education route—the job experiences of those taking the same route to teaching were quite different. Varying levels of exersion of teacher agency to attain alignment between imagined and actual identities and rare opportunities for legitimate participation and job socialization were effective in the actualization of personal and professional values distinctively. The findings enhance our understanding of how teacher identity is contextually and relationally constructed and offer implications for teacher education and sustainable identity‐oriented professional learning.

Managing multiple, geographically-separated identities, and its effect on employee retention.

Extant literature posits that an individual manages their multiple identities by integrating or separating them to varying degrees. We posit that, rather than managing a single set of identities, an individual may engage different identity structures in different contexts. We use the fly-in, fly-out work context, whereby an employee's home and work are substantially geographically separated, to explore whether different identity structures exist, strategies for managing them, and their effect on employee retention intentions. Analysis of qualitative data from 29 participants collected across three work sites revealed three main strategies that employees adopt to cope with having multiple identity structures: aligning identities; making work identity dominant; and creating a new identity around the working arrangement and discarding all other identities. These strategies interact with the employee's actual identity structure to influence retention intentions. Implications for retaining employees in such working arrangements are discussed.

Hot on the Trail: Pilgrimage and Crime in Early Modern Spain

Abstract Though pilgrims were purportedly sacred travelers, their actual identities and motivations for travel were far from certain. Connotations with criminality and fraud also ran deep. Beginning with a strange case in which an epileptic French priest traveling to Santiago de Compostela was arrested and investigated as an alleged spy, this article considers the ambiguities surrounding pilgrim identity and the difficulty communities had in determining intention and motivation. Drawing upon secular and church records from Navarre, Aragon, and Gipuzkoa, this article examines the methods courts employed to reveal or impose identities, including using complex forensic techniques such as building a blind criminal lineup, associative triangulation of place and person, and relying upon medical and linguistic evaluation. In many cases, these processes of evidence gathering and particularly the idea that suspects could be definitively identified runs contrary to our understanding of the lack of sophistication of early modern criminal procedure and epistemology.

Professional identity of pre-service teachers: actual and designated identity profiles and their relationship to teacher education programs

In this study, we investigated the professional identities of 490 pre-service teachers (PSTs) at the University of Hamburg, Germany. By distributing 100 percentage points, the PSTs assessed the relevance of the roles of subject specialist (SS), didactician (DD), and pedagogue (PD) for themselves currently (actual identity) and for an ideal teacher in different school types (designated identity). A theory-based non-hierarchical cluster analysis distinguished seven profiles: three main role profiles, three dual role profiles, and one balanced profile. The distribution of the PSTs’ actual identities across these seven profiles showed expectedly large interindividual diversity. The most frequent actual identity profiles were those for which the DD and PD roles were particularly relevant (dual role PD/DD profile and balanced profile). The distribution of PSTs across profiles supported the hypothesis that actual identity is related to the type of teacher education program being followed: upper secondary education PSTs were more strongly characterized by profiles that emphasized the SS role (main role SS and dual role SS/DD profiles) than the other PSTs, and special education PSTs were more strongly characterized by profiles that emphasized the PD role (main role PD profile, dual role PD/DD, and PD/SS profiles) than the other PSTs. The designated identities, on the other hand, showed greater consensus among the PSTs. The profiles that best characterized PSTs were the dual role PD/DD profile and the balanced profile. In contrast, the two main role SS and DD profiles and the dual role PD/SS profile were irrelevant as designated identities. A comparison of PSTs’ actual identities with their designated identities showed that a third of the PSTs had the same profile. The diversity of professional identities and the factors in teacher training that influence them should be investigated more closely.

The Intrinsic Problem of Labeling in Healthcare

While everyday prejudice and stereotypes may seem harmless, they can cause problems for interpersonal interactions and have drastic consequences for professional caregivers. American sociologist Goffman (1963) defined "stigma" as an individual being disqualified from complete social acceptance. Stigmatization and social stigma convey long-discounted stereotypes and social discrimination in specific ways, resulting in an individual being psychologically categorized as unwelcome or an outcast and, in turn, notable differences between their virtual and actual social identity. Link and Phelan (2001) defined stigmatization as the simultaneous occurrence of four processes: (1) distinct labeling; (2) stereotyping labels with unwelcome attributes; (3) separating "us" from "them" by framing labeled individuals as different; and (4) discriminating against labeled individuals. Evidently, stigmatization is a complex and multifaceted social process that comprises labeling, stereotyping, separating, depriving (of status), and discriminating through the exercise of power (Link & Phelan, 2001). Stigmatized individuals often perceive themselves as different from and devalued by others (Jacoby et al., 2005). Stigmatizing others may provide individuals with a higher perceived locus of control, stronger self-esteem, and reduced anxiety (Heatherton et al., 2000). Stigmatization significantly impacts the physical and mental health of victims. For example, it can make patients stressed, prolong the length of their hospitalization, and increase their likelihood of receiving a depression diagnosis (Budhwani & De, 2019). The main causes of social stigmatization are ignorance, lack of understanding, misinformation, and misunderstanding (Kok et al., 2018). The research has demonstrated that healthcare professionals may stigmatize and discriminate against the patients for which they are caring, hurting the dignity of their patients (Alenezi, 2022) and leading to a lack of trust in patient-physician relationships, reducing patients' opportunities to receive adequate care (Tyerman et al., 2021), hindering their treatment and recovery, and resulting in lower-quality healthcare and prognoses (Copeland, 2021). Therefore, reducing stigmatization in healthcare institutions is necessary to improve healthcare services and boost trust between patients and healthcare teams. During the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline healthcare workers stigmatized and discriminated against many patients during their process of care, harming the mental health of these patients (Tsukuda et al., 2022). These pandemic-era experiences highlight the need for healthcare workers to reflect empathetically on their behavior from various perspectives. Given that empathy and attitude are linked to each other, Economou et al. (2020) argued that anti-stigmatization efforts should prioritize and strengthen healthcare workers' perspective-taking abilities. The nursing-development process should focus on reestablishing behavioral and professional norms to eliminate labeling, instill empathy, emphasize relationships, and develop moral maturity to mitigate stigmatization among patients (Copeland, 2021). The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, created The Lancet Commission to end stigma and discrimination in mental health with the assistance of over 50 renowned healthcare experts. Strategies for countering stigmatization include the incorporation of relevant training programs and educational interventions aimed at improving how students understand disease and reducing discriminatory behavior against patients. The healthcare sector must focus on the impacts of stigmatization on both healthcare providers' behaviors and treatment quality rather than merely assessing the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare providers (Thornicroft et al., 2022). This approach can help ensure patients receive high-quality healthcare that promotes their recovery, is tailored to their needs, and is free from discrimination and stigmatization.

CONSISTENCY OF WITNESSES IN NOTARY OFFICIAL AND PPAT

In making an Akta Autentik (Authentic Official) made by a Notary and a Land Official Making Officer or what is called a PPAT which is the authority, it consists of several parts and one of the things that must be in the Authentic Official section is a witness, which is defined as an identifier witness and an instrumenter witness. Instrumenter witness is a mandatory thing with a minimum number of two people who must have the status as employees in the related PPAT Notary Office, their important existence makes many considerations that must be taken if they have to replace one or both of them, including when the PPAT Notary cooperates with freelancers who require it become an instrumenter witness, but often the PPAT Notary does not know the legal actions and the actual identity in the draft official, he receives from the freelancer which creates a gap to create a dispute, besides that, another loss received by the Notary and PPAT is that his credibility is starting to be doubted. This study aims to find out what and what effect it has on the consistency of instrumenter witnesses in an Authentic Official, this study uses a normative juridical research method by comparing das sein and das sollen about instrumenter witnesses in an Authentic Official, in which the results of research on the consistency of complementary witnesses can lead to a a dispute because the PPAT Notary in making or signing the official does not meet directly with the interested parties which can injure the making and meaning of the Authentic Official definition and is at high risk for the Notary and the PPAT itself. Therefore, with this writing, it is expected that Notaries and PPATs who have been or are new and will be actively serving to be able to be careful in carrying out their duties and positions, especially in the inclusion of witnesses in the official, including to cooperate with freelancers.

Социально-психологические детерминанты использования иноязычной лексики

The article discusses the sociopsychological determinants of the use of luxury loanwords in Russian, in particular the ethnic identity of the individual, the content and focus of heterostereotypes, and the frequency of excessive loanwords in speech practices recorded in the national corpus of the Russian language. The study involved 22 translation and translation studies final year students aged 20-21. The ethnic identity of a person is investigated by comparing auto- and heterostereotypes of three stimuli objects, “a typical representative of Russian, English nationality” and “American people” with the self-image. Next, a comparative analysis of the use of excessive loanwords when translating the text from English into Russian is performed. The discrepancy between declared and actual ethnic identity was revealed for the majority of informants. Three groups of respondents were distinguished: the first group identified with Russian nationality, the second with English, and the third group's self-image corresponded to none of the presented stimulus objects. Judgments about the “typical representative of English and American nationality” are more consistent compared to the representation of the “typical representative of Russian nationality”. According to the research data, informants with uncertain ethnic identity and representatives of English national identity have a positive image of “a representative of English nationality”. Those with Russian national identity have a shift towards positive social desirability in their perceptions of “a typical representative of the American people”. The use of luxury loanwords is equally characteristic of all respondents. Thus, the use of foreign words and word combinations in speech is associated with a shift in perceptions of native speakers (English or American) towards positive social desirability, as well as identification with native speakers of the language from which the vocabulary is borrowed. The author concludes that social psychological factors should be taken into account when developing measures to protect the mother tongue from excessive borrowing.