Cross-cultural Analysis of Factor Structures of Self-Confidence of Different Groups of Students

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the results of cross-cultural research of ethnopsychological specifics in the self-confidence of students from different countries. The article considers the specifics in the confidence structures of the students from Russia, China, Guinea-Bissau and Ecuador in the frame of system-functional approach to the research of the personality. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.