PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF MENTALITY OF THE REPRESENTATIVES’ IDENTITY IN THE REGIONAL COMMUNITIES OF UKRAINE AND POLAND

Abstract

The article contains methodological justification and experience in a practical study regarding the mental- ity of representatives of regional communities of Ukraine and Poland. The subject of research determines its particular importance, because among the set of peculiarities of psychological mentality there is a convenient opportunity to trace the ways of perception, interpretation of reality and responding to it. And there is also an opportunity to trace the processes of uniting the ways of perceiving the world, attitudes to the world, world- view and the identity of behaviours. These facts give an opportunity to understand the deeper ethnopsycho- logical peculiarities of regional communities and to use this knowledge to consolidate Ukrainian society and counteract the “regional separatism”.