Ethnic identity maintaining as foreign students’ cross-cultural adjustment’ important contributive factor

Abstract

Ethnic identity belongs to important psychological category. Maintaining the ethnic identity represents every personality’s natural desire. It is especially important at the person’s including in another culture, that is actual for the immigrants, refugees, ethnic minorities as well as the education International applicants studying abroad significantly. Every person contains a set of individual typological peculiarities. Belonging to typologies found its assessment in the theoretical and applied aspects in the Science various branches far from Psychology, Physiology and Pedagogy. Differential Psychology has become a separate science since its discovery by A. Shtern in 1901. Ethnopsychology and Ethnophysiology are its pronounced compounds. Differential Psychology deals to the inter-grouped and intra-grouped varieties studying taking the human typologies in obligatory consideration in part the ethnic belonging. Ethnic identity is connected to ethnic typological aspect significantly. The personality’s behavior during intra- and inter- grouped communication is impacted by ethnic belonging and thus ethnic identity together with other typological aspects the main of which are interhemispherical asymmetry individual profile, temperament type, gender, age, control locus and behavioral strategies.