APPLICATION OF PSYCHOSEMANTIC METHODS FOR ASSESSMENT IDENTIFICATION OF MIGRANT WITH A SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RECEIVING POPULATION

The article investigates the influence of identification (between a migrant and a significant representative of the receiving population) on the willingness to choose a strategy for sociocultural adaptation. In this study, a representative of the host population is a psychologist who provides psychological assistance to an internally displaced person. As a tool for identification research, we used the semantic differential in the variant proposed by T. S. Baranova. Research procedure: using the differential, the respondent first assesses himself, and then assesses how he perceives the psychologist. Data were collected from 62 internally displaced people who receiving psychological help or support and well knew their consultant. The results show that the failure of identification is reliably associated with higher rates for the mixed strategy of separation-marginalization (F = 7,05; p < 0,05). Also, the study tested the ability to investigate identification using the differential proposed by V.A. Ilyin, which is designed to assess the stages of psychosocial development. The conclusions made are consistent with the ideas formulated by T. S. Baranova: to diagnose identification, the scales of the semantic differential must be conotative and associated with emotional feelings. In further studies of internally displaced persons, it seems appropriate to use many-sided diagnostic methods for identification. Methods that are based on both self-completion and - on the comparison of individual results with group values; methods designed to diagnose identification at the personal and social levels. Such a direction of research will make it possible to clarify: with which area of self are related the identification, which was diagnosed by using the T. S. Baranova semantic differential, with proveded testing procedure; patterns of migrants adaptation to a new place.