About the Need in a Polycultural Dialogue

Natalia Yuryevna Sinyagina¹ and Tatiana Yuryevna Bogacheva²

¹Doctor of Psychology, the Director of The Federal Child Development and Prevention Research Centre(Research Centre for child-rearing problems, the formation of a healthy lifestyle, prevention of drug addiction, and the socio-pedagogical support of children and youth), 127055, Moscow, Tihvinskaya, 39, p. 25, Moscow ²Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Senior Research Scientist at the Federal Child Development Research Centre (Research Centre for child-rearing problems, the formation of a Healthy lifestyle, prevention of drug addiction, and the socio-pedagogical support of children and youth),127055, Moscow, Tihvinskaya, 39, p. 25.Moscow.

ABSTRACT: The presented article deals with the issues of students’ adaptation in a polycultural environment. It contains the data of the study of interpersonal interaction in a situation when students find themselves in a new socio-cultural environment on the example of young students from Armenia, Russia, and the United States. It discusses the symptoms, stages, and positive effects of a culture shock, substantiates the necessity of psychological efforts on adaptation of foreign students, describes the ways of such adaptation in a new cultural environment, factors influencing the expression of the culture shock and methods of its prevention, and substantiates the necessity of a polycultural dialog in solving the assigned tasks.

KEYWORDS: Polycultural interaction; Intrapersonal conflict; Culture shock; adaptation; polycultural dialog

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