The article describes a study of tolerance of uncertainty as the most important mechanism for the
effective functioning of a person in everyday, educational and professional activities. It presents data
on the manifestation of tolerance/ intolerance of uncertainty, motivation for success, perception of
the world, and anxiety among male and female students of higher educational institutions of Kazan
together with the relationship between these psychological parameters. The study aims to identify
the severity and interrelationships between tolerance for these factors. The study found psychological
differences between male and female students in terms of anxiety, motivation to achieve success,
and conviction in the kindness of the World, and indicated that in the males and females there is a
prevailing intolerance of uncertainty. The sources of this intolerance are shown. It also showed the
interrelations of intolerance of uncertainty with the motivation to achieve success among males. In
contrast, in female subjects, the motivation to achieve success is directly related to the peculiarities
of the world perception. At the same time, anxiety among students of both groups studied remained
low. A slight excess in the level of anxiety among female students is accompanied by a decrease in
the level of self-worth. The results of this study can be used to develop a theoretical model of personal
prerequisites for self-regulation of educational activities, training programs, and psychological
counselling.
Author : Milausha V. Gabdulkhakova
Semantic analysis of mental states of students from different ethnocultural groups in situations with a certain and uncertain outcome
Uncertainty is inherent in the modern world. Global problems of the present, environmental,
cultural and social problems, information revolution, problems of interpersonal communications
and interaction of the person with the environment, all this generates uncertainty of human’s
existence of the person in the world. Under such circumstances of the existence a special role is
played by a tolerance phenomenon to uncertainty. In this regard, in spite of sufficient complexity
and relevance of a phenomenon of tolerance to uncertainty and interest in this problem of various
sciences, there are no theoretical and empirical data on features of tolerance to uncertainty and
the tested mental states of various ethnocultural groups, in particular of Russians and Tatars, that
defined the purpose of our research. The research was conducted by means of a technique of a selfassessment of mental states of Alishev, Gabdulkhakova. In article are presented and analized the
results of a research of mental conditions of representatives of the Russian and Tatar nationality
in situations with a certain and uncertain outcome. It is revealed that at collision with uncertain
situations there is a shift of qualitative characteristics of states from positive to negative at examinees
of the Russian and Tatar nationality. It is shown that in situations with defined (negative outcome
there are negative mental states, while in situations with a certain outcome positive states are felt.