Communication between associations youth own personality and homeland

Nowadaysthe concept of self-identification, national self-esteem, civic and national feelings are important to the younger generation. This serves to become familiar with the nativeculture, which is an expression of the life and world view of a particulare thnicgroup, in this particular case, Ukrainian. The article presented describes this area, narrows the topicof the formation of ethnic consciousness with the help of folkart. It highl ightspart of the experimentals cientific study «Psychological features of the formation of ethnic consciousness of youth by meansof Ukrainian folkembroidery». While identification of the ethnographic competence of adults on the material of perception of fragments of the Ukrainian traditional ornament, the task was to determine the competence in signsymbolic graphemes at the perception of Ukrainian folk embroidery by the different groups of studied adults and to find out whether they have a relationship between the selected graphemes, associating themselves and Ukraine, if there is a connection in this dyad and on what it depends. The presented materials outline the results of the diagnosis of the groups of adults involved in the future in the embroid eryprofession (the ZP(РT)O-R and ZP(РT)O-K groups) and non-involved in profession (students of Kyiv University name dafter Boris Grinchenko, who we called KUBG and the ZP(РT)O-krgroup). It is also about the correlation of individual and collective meaningful reality, which is a reflection of the correlation of collective and individual meaning in the mind of person. The article contains theoretical bases of research, research methods and results. A statistically significant correlation was found between the choice of characters associated with Ukraine and individual personality within groups – for groups learning to embroider. This connection depends on the environment in which the individual is formed, the activities and ethno-nationality signs that are nearby.