Ethnic and psychological particularities of patriotism in students of the CIS countries

The relevance of the research is conditioned by the necessity of obtaining more data on the problem of personal patriotism, namely, having to identify patriotic and non-patriotic representatives of various ethnic groups. Within the world's current political situation, the question of the patriotic calling of a personality is highly relevant. With regard to this, the paper is aimed at detecting and describing the particularities of patriotism in representatives of various national groups (using the example of students coming from the CIS countries - Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia). The study of patriotism is presented within the systemic and functional approach that allows viewing the properties of a personality in an integrated way. The paper provides the results of both theoretical and empirical study of personal patriotism, as a total of which the ethnic and psychological particularities of patriotism among the Tajik, Azerbaijani and Armenian students have been revealed. It has been found that students coming from Tajikistan and Azerbaijan have more social and personal difficulties when displaying their patriotism than students from Armenia. Similarly, in Tajik and Azerbaijani students as compared to the Armenian ones, patriotism is induced by a wish to attract more attention to themselves, by trying to gain a favorable attitude to themselves, by trying to solve their own problems at the expense of others, etc. The materials of the paper are of practical value for working with the multinational audience of higher education institutions as well as for constructing the training sessions on increasing the personal patriotism for the purpose of enhancing the communication level and reducing the difficulties when showing one's patriotism. © Serials Publications.