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Positive Psychology in Russia
Ch. 10. P. 277–305.
Keywords: subjective well-beinghappinessRussian cultureemotional expressionSubjective value of lifeCultural differences
Publication based on the results of:
Сапожникова М. А., Психологические исследования: электронный научный журнал 2026 Т. 19 № 105
The study of subjective well-being remains a central topic in contemporary psychology, reflecting a sustained scholarly interest in the factors that contribute to individuals’ positive life evaluations. While socio-demographic and economic determinants are well-established, research increasingly focuses on relational variables, particularly the quality of intimate bonds. A robust body of evidence indicates that high-quality social ...
Added: March 4, 2026
Matkin N., Novikova A., Экономическая социология 2026 Т. 27 № 1 С. 92–124
In the context of the growing demand for psychological services in Russia and the spread of therapeutic culture, digital platforms like YouTube are becoming a key locus for the commercialization of emotions. However, the mechanisms of commodification, particularly concerning happiness, remain underexplored in this digital environment. This article examines how popular Russian psychological bloggers on ...
Added: February 2, 2026
Латов Ю. В., Tikhonova N. E., Социологические исследования 2025 № 11 С. 38–51
The adaptation of young people to the changing realities of modern Russia should be considered taking into account the qualitative differences between different subgroups of young people and long-term trends in the development of the society to which they adapt, reproducing it. The authors have developed and tested on large arrays of empirical data an ...
Added: December 26, 2025
Pavlova I., Успехи геронтологии 2025 Т. 38 № 5 С. 734–744
The senior age group has become a focal point in interdisciplinary studies, with increasing attention on healthy and active aging, including happiness and life satisfaction in later life. This study presents the results of a bibliometric network analysis of scientific literature exploring the happiness of older adults. Relying on R.Veenhoven’s concept of overall happiness, the ...
Added: November 18, 2025
Marey M., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2025 Т. 9 № 3 С. 389–396
Maria Marey's analysis of Carl Schmitt's "The Tyranny of Values" explores his critique of elevating any set of values to an absolute status. Schmitt argues that when political struggles are framed as a battle for ultimate "Good" against "Evil," it leads to tyranny. This "ethicization" of politics destroys the realm of legal negotiation, transforming opponents ...
Added: November 7, 2025
Slobodenyuk E., В кн.: Российское общество и вызовы времени. Книга восьмая.: М.: Весь мир, 2025. Гл. 10 С. 200–225.
This chapter is devoted to two low-income groups of Russian society—the poor and the low-income. It examines the lives of these people and how their subjective perceptions of life changed from 2013 to 2024. The chapter analyzes not only the poor (with incomes below the subsistence level), who have been the focus of increased government ...
Added: October 28, 2025
Gorshkov M., Tikhonova N. E., Андреев А. Л. et al., М.: Весь мир, 2025.
Based on the results of many years of sociological monitoring (2014–2024), the book provides an interdisciplinary and multifaceted analysis of the dynamics of Russian society's development in the context of external and internal
threats and challenges. It examines the peculiarities of Russians' perception of the situation in the world, their country, and their places of residence, as well as ...
Added: October 28, 2025
Gorokhova A. S., Prusova I., Институт психологии Российской академии наук. Социальная и экономическая психология 2025 Т. 10 № 3(39) С. 109–136
Although global crises cause a subjective perception of threats, which consequently mitigates subjective well-being, the level of life satisfaction remains high among Russians. The aim of the study was to examine the role of social beliefs in life satisfaction among supporters of equal/unequal income distribution. The current study tested a model in which social beliefs ...
Added: October 27, 2025
Pavlov I., Patria 2025 Т. 2 № 4 С. 108–123
The introductory text precedes the publication of the article by Severodvinsk poet, philologist, and journalist Ilia Georgievich Pavlov (1954–1992), titled Tyutchev’s Mountains and Waters: Myth and Symbol in Tyutchev’s Lyrics, written in 1984. The creative legacy of I. G. Pavlov is not as widely recognized not only by the general public but also by researchers of late ...
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Nosachev P., , in: Dwelling in Parallel Worlds: Esoteric and New Age Milieus in the Soviet Period and Afterward.: Berlin: Lit Verlag Berlin, 2025. P. 58–60.
Added: September 12, 2025
Almakaeva A., Nastina E., Догузов А. В., Социологический журнал 2025 Т. 31 № 2 С. 29–50
The papers aims to analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine on the Russian people’s happiness and life satisfaction. It relies on three waves of a national panel study conducted via CATI. We failed to identify any substantial impact of those two exogenous shocks on average dynamics ...
Added: August 2, 2025
Sánchez-Rodríguez Á., Górski M., Joshanloo M. et al., Social Psychological and Personality Science 2026 Vol. 17 No. 3 P. 383–399
The link between economic inequality and individual well-being has been gaining increasing research attention. This study examines this relationship using data from 71 countries with diverse national incomes, addressing three key research gaps: (1) incorporating measures of both perceived and objective economic inequality, (2) extending analysis to multiple components of well-being beyond happiness, including meaning ...
Added: July 23, 2025
Mareeva S., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология 2025 Т. 25 № 2 С. 344–362
The article examines the dynamics of the population's perception of socio-economic inequalities over the last decade on the basis of empirical data from all-Russian studies conducted by the FCTAS RAS. The relevance of the topic is determined firstly by the challenge of inequality for the sustainable development of the country, and secondly by the role ...
Added: July 21, 2025
Издательский Дом "Наука", 2024.
The collection of articles includes the latest research and materials on the study of Russian culture of the 16th-19th centuries based on archaeological data. The article considers the history of the formation and development of the "archaeology of Russians" direction. The memorial section is dedicated to the scientific activity of A.R. Artemiev. The priority areas ...
Added: July 7, 2025
Leontiev D., Osin E. N., Рыкун А. Ю. et al., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2024 № 6 С. 75–98
The study is a part of the preliminary stage of the project spanning psychology and sociology, aimed at investigating the associations between objective and subjective indices of the quality of life and personality variables aggregated in a compound index of personality potential. The study was carried out using a representative sample of the population of ...
Added: June 6, 2025
Анашкин Н. Р., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2025 № 1(120) С. 5–22
In modern scientific discourse, there is a problem of incongruence between the philosophical and psycholinguistic understanding of happiness as an absolute phenomenon and attempts to operationalize it as a relative category within the framework of psychological research. It seems necessary to create and substantiate a model of personological integration of existing ideas of happiness in ...
Added: April 9, 2025
Shelepenkov D., Essel A., Kosonogov V., American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology 2025 Vol. 329 No. 1 P. R81–R85
Introduction. Skin temperature has been recognized as a potential marker of emotional arousal, with studies demonstrating temperature changes in response to various emotional stimuli. However, temperature in different body parts and in different basic emotions has not been studied sufficiently. Our study aimed to investigate whether basic emotions could be reflected in temperature changes at ...
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Elena B. Starovoytenko, Brook Y., Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 2025 Vol. 22 No. 1 P. 60–79
The goal of this study was to explore happiness within the context of general personology, which synthesizes theoretical, cultural-phenomenological, and reflective knowledge about personality. Classical and con- temporary ideas about happiness have been consolidated and problematized through conceptual questions and answers, the sequence of which reflects the logic of the original integrative approach to understanding ...
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Glebov O., Demenchuk P., Логос 2025 Т. 35 № 2 С. 257–276
The article is devoted to the study of S.A. Kuryokhin's hypothesis that the element of ‘madness’ is a characteristic feature of Russian culture. The study of this hypothesis is valuable because, firstly, the conceptualisation of the concept of ‘madness’ will make it possible to understand Kurekhin and his work, resulting in the formation of a ...
Added: March 14, 2025
Nastina E., Andiappan M., Miles A. et al., Journal of Social Psychology 2025 P. 1–14
In this paper, we use data from a longitudinal online study to examine how characteristics of prosocial behaviors influence the level of positive affect they produce. Although much work has found that prosocial behaviors benefit those who enact them, the question remains if and how these effects vary based on characteristics of those acts. Using ...
Added: March 14, 2025
Antonova N., В кн.: CBT Forum. Сборник научных статей.: СПб.: Международный институт развития когнитивно-поведенческой терапии, 2024. С. 8–14.
В статье анализируются результаты разработки и апробации программы интегративного когнитивно-поведенческого коучинга, как инструмента повышения субъективного благополучия. Использован evidence-based подход для оценки эффективности разработанной программы. В качестве критериев эффективности были выбраны переменные: удовлетворенность жизнью, субъективное счастье, целевые оптимистические атрибутивные стили. Дизайн исследования: формирующий эксперимент. Методики: шкала удовлетворенности жизнью по Динеру, шкала субъективного счастья по Любомирски, шкала ...
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Akhmedjanova D., Bochaver A. A., В кн.: Сборник статей X Международного форума по педагогическому образованию IFTE-2024Ч. 1: МИНИСТЕРСТВО НАУКИ И ВЫСШЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ КАЗАНСКИЙ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ИНСТИТУТ ПСИХОЛОГИИ И ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКАЯ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ: ТРАДИЦИИ КАК ОСНОВА ДЛЯ ИННОВАЦИЙ.: Издательство Казанского университета, 2024. С. 48–54.
An increasing attention is observed around children's subjective well-being (SWB) in educational contexts (Polivanova, 2020). Research shows associations between children’s SWB and their academic outcomes, motivation, social-emotional skills, self-efficacy, and self-regulated learning (SRL; Cespedes et al., 2021; Chu et al., 2020; Kanonire et al., 2020). Parental stress and satisfaction also associate with children's SWB (Ozornina ...
Added: February 21, 2025