Norms and values characteristics of students in a foreign cultural environment

The article presents empirical research data of cultural norms and values. Students of Kazan federal university took part in the research. The aim of the research was to reveal comparative data about cultural indexes (norms and values) of foreign students for whom Russia is a foreign cultural context. To achieve the purposes there were used methods known in social sciences: S. Schwarz and G. Triandis methods. Comparative data were received for students from China and Turkic speaking countries in comparison with Russian students presenting the culture of the host stay country. The results of study allow to state that learning in a foreign culture environment save differences of norms and values. It speaks for acculturization in a students' environment along the lines of integration when each group keeps and saves its own culture and at the same time tends to maintain contacts with the representatives of different culture. The factor analysis revealed tendencies concerning norms adopted in cultures of considered groups. Norms in contrast to values distinguish one group from another. Comparison of cultural values exposed that along with existing differences there are common value estimations. Thus, all three different ethno-cultural student groups ranking showed that safety is a dominant value. On the whole, the research found out that acculturization during the period of study in a foreign culture environment keeps differences of norms and values to a greater extent. © IDOSI Publications, 2013

Creativity and Cultural Congruence in Adolescence

Background. The study of cultural congruence as a personality trait responsible for the regulation of adolescent behavior in relation to the rules typical for this age is one of the important tasks for developmental psychology. The range of rules despite its diversity has an invariant series. This invariant part of diversity is specific for each age stage. the contradiction between the need to follow generally accepted rules and conditions for the development of creativity associated with atypical and original products of creative activity makes up the problem of studying cultural congruence of creative teenagers. There is a lack of research on the relationship between two diametrically opposed psychological qualities of adolescents: cultural congruence and creativity. The objective of the study is to analyze the correlation between cultural congruence and creativity; as well as to study the influence of divergent thinking on the cultural congruence in adolescents. Sample. The research was conducted in 4 stages between March 2021 and March 2022 and involved 272 adolescents, ages 13 to 16 (М = 14.21; SD = 1.02), (139 male and 133 female). Students of 7th, 8th, and 9th grades at four lyceums in Kazan took part in the study. Methods. The methods included the test of divergent creative thinking (F. Williams, modified by E.E. Tunik, 2003), the questionnaire to diagnose the level of cultural congruence for adolescents (L.F. Bayanova, O.G. Minyaev, 2016), the test to identify creative abilities (H. Zievert, 1998). The study assessed the following parameters: curiosity, imagination, risk-taking, self-discipline, quick-thinking, divergent thinking, cultural сongruence as the ability to control behavior regarding the rules typical of the social situation of development in adolescence. Mathematical data processing was carried out using methods of descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient (r), Cheddock scale, the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results. The research of the indicators of divergent thinking, creative characteristics, and cultural congruence of adolescents concludes that of the variety of dichotomous relations, a significant inverse correlation was found between the structural component of cultural congruence, i.e., “safety” and divergent thinking (confidence level is 95% (p ≤ 0.05; r = –12). It provides a partial confirmation of the hypothesis. The final stage of the research included an analysis of variance using the one-factor ANOVA method. Following the results of the analysis, it was found that the influence of divergent thinking on the cultural congruence of adolescents is not significant. Conclusion. The data obtained indicate a weak correlation of the ambivalent factors, i.e., creativity and cultural congruence. The results show an inverse correlation between creativity and the “safety” scale of the method for diagnosing the cultural congruence for adolescents. The revealed ambivalence of the studied indicators distinguishes the nature of correlations, identified previously in the study of behavior regulation and creativity of preschool and primary school children

Adaptation of the Russian version of "the sport imagery questionnaire

The results of the psychometric analysis of the suitability of the Russian version of the "The Sport Imagery Questionnaire" ("Questionnaire using imagery in sport") are presented. Powered meaningful comparison of the results in the Russian-speaking, Spanish and Finnish samples of athletes is obtained. Patterns of use of the sport imageries by Russian-speaking athletes in accordance with the specific age, gender, specific to that particular sport are identified. The possibility of use of presented version of the questionnaire for further research is measured

Garnet granulites of Sutam River middle current sutam river (Aldan Shield) as possible indicators of metamorhosed and tectonically displaced Post-Hadean weathering crust

The article discusses the problem of the nature of high-alumina garnet granulites from Sutam River (Aldan Shield). The studies revealed that the majority of detrital grains have U-Pb age of up to 1.92 Ga; however the zircon grain of 3.94 Ga has been for the first time discovered in Russia. This age is estimated as the upper limit of the Hadean eon. The goals of the present studies were to reveal the petrogenesis of garnet granulites and to find out the origin of the Hadean zircon in these garnet granulites and the mechanisms of injection diapirism of garnet granulite body to the upper horizons of the crust. The comparison of garnet granulites and middle crust showed that the granulites are enriched in the whole spectrum of rare earth elements (except of Eu) as well as Al2O3, U, Th and are depleted in Na, Ca и Sr (the most mobile elements). This in combination with other geochemical indicators suggested the granulite protolith as an upper part of the allite zone of middle crust weathering, formed in arid climate. The Hadean zircon grain is regarded as having been captured from the granites of middle crust. The diapirism of garnet granulites (with the captured Hadean zircon) proceeded during the Paleoproterozoic thermotectogenesis of the Aldan shield which were accompanied by the horizontal propagation of deep-seated granite-anorthosite tectonic flows from the plume’s center to its periphery. During the movement of these flows the fragments of the lower and middle crust were shifted both laterally and vertically. When they moved vertically they were discretely intruded in the upper granite-gneiss crust (1.83-1.82 Ga) under high pressure. The 3.94 Ga zircon is comparable with the Hadean zircons from Acasta orthogneiss (Canadian shield, 4.03-3.94 Ga, SHRIMP and ID-TIMS)

Palaeoproterozoic to Eoarchaean crustal growth in southern Siberia: a Nd-isotope synthesis

Nd-isotope analyses from 114 rock samples are reported from the southern part of the Siberian craton to establish a first-order crustal formation scheme for the region. The Nd-isotopedata show considerable variability within and among different cratonic units. In many cases this variability reflects differing degrees of mixing between juvenile and older (up to Eoarchaean) crustal components. The fragments of Palaeoproterozoic juvenile crust within the studied segment of the Siberian craton margin have Nd-model ages of 2.0-2.3 Ga. Voluminous Palaeoproterozoicgranites ( 1.85 Ga) were intruded into cratonic fragments and suture zones. These granites mark the stabilization of the southern Siberian craton. The complexity in the Nd data indicatea long history of crustal development, extending from the Eoarchaean to the Palaeoproterozoiceras, which is interpreted to reflect the amalgamation of distinct Archaean crustal fragments, with differing histories, during Palaeoproterozoic accretion at 1.9-2.0 Ga and subsequent cratonic stabilization at 1.85 Ga. Such a model temporally coincides with important orogenic events on nearly every continent and suggests that the Siberian craton participated in the formation of a Palaeoproterozoic supercontinent at around 1.9 Ga

TIME CONSTRAINTS ON THE FORMATION OF THE KANDALAKSHA AND KERETSK GRABENS OF THE WHITE SEA PALEO-RIFT SYSTEM FROM NEW ISOTOPIC GEOCHRONOLOGICAL DATA

Initially, the age and stratigraphic position of the Tersk formation were determined with respect to the fact that this formation overlaps the Early Proterozoic granitoids. Its top was marked by the rocks penetrated by the Late Devonian alkaline intrusions, including explosion pipes.This article presents the U-Pb isotopic dating of detrital zircon grains (dZr) from sandstones of the Tersk formation. It describes the geochemical compositions of the rocks and the Sm-Nd study results. In our study, the weighted average age of four youngest dZr grains from the sandstones of the Tersk formation is 1145±20 Ma, which suggests that the rocks above the studied rock layer (see the Tersk formation cross-section) are is not older than the end of the Middle Riphean. The U-Pb isotopic ages of dZr grains (provenance signals) from the sandstones of the Tersk formation were compared to the ages of other Upper Precambrian clastic strata in the northeastern East European platform (EEP) and adjacent areas. Our comparative analysis shows that these rocks significantly differ in age. This conclusion is in good agreement with the idea that at the end of the Middle and during the Late Riphean, several small (mainly closed) basins separated by uplifts dominated in the paleogeographic setting of the area wherein the White Sea rift system (WSRS) formed and developed. Temporal connections of these basins with the ocean were possible. Such paleogeographic setting does not favour the development of large rivers; this is why the grabens are mainly filled with local rock materials. The Keretsk and Kandalaksha grabens (WSRS) are filled with marine sediments eroded from the grabens walls. The local sediment sources include eclogite complexes (~1.9 Ga), which basic magmatism is dated at ~2.4–2.5 and ~2.7–2.9 Ga. Any potential primary sources for dZr grains are lacking in the area near the Keretsk graben. We suggest that such grains occurred due to recycling of the secondary sources of zircon, i.e. originated from ancient local sedimentary formations

О ВРЕМЕНИ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ КАНДАЛАКШСКОГО И КЕРЕЦКОГО ГРАБЕНОВ ПАЛЕОРИФТОВОЙ СИСТЕМЫ БЕЛОГО МОРЯ В СВЕТЕ НОВЫХ ДАННЫХ ИЗОТОПНОЙ ГЕОХРОНОЛОГИИ

Initially, the age and stratigraphic position of the Tersk formation were determined with respect to the fact that this formation overlaps the Early Proterozoic granitoids. Its top was marked by the rocks penetrated by the Late Devonian alkaline intrusions, including explosion pipes.This article presents the U-Pb isotopic dating of detrital zircon grains (dZr) from sandstones of the Tersk formation. It describes the geochemical compositions of the rocks and the Sm-Nd study results. In our study, the weighted average age of four youngest dZr grains from the sandstones of the Tersk formation is 1145±20 Ma, which suggests that the rocks above the studied rock layer (see the Tersk formation cross-section) are is not older than the end of the Middle Riphean. The U-Pb isotopic ages of dZr grains (provenance signals) from the sandstones of the Tersk formation were compared to the ages of other Upper Precambrian clastic strata in the northeastern East European platform (EEP) and adjacent areas. Our comparative analysis shows that these rocks significantly differ in age. This conclusion is in good agreement with the idea that at the end of the Middle and during the Late Riphean, several small (mainly closed) basins separated by uplifts dominated in the paleogeographic setting of the area wherein the White Sea rift system (WSRS) formed and developed. Temporal connections of these basins with the ocean were possible. Such paleogeographic setting does not favour the development of large rivers; this is why the grabens are mainly filled with local rock materials. The Keretsk and Kandalaksha grabens (WSRS) are filled with marine sediments eroded from the grabens walls. The local sediment sources include eclogite complexes (~1.9 Ga), which basic magmatism is dated at ~2.4–2.5 and ~2.7–2.9 Ga. Any potential primary sources for dZr grains are lacking in the area near the Keretsk graben. We suggest that such grains occurred due to recycling of the secondary sources of zircon, i.e. originated from ancient local sedimentary formations.На начальном этапе исследований возраст и стратиграфическое положение терской свиты ограничивались снизу ее налеганием на раннепротерозойские гранитоиды, а сверху – тем, что породы терской свиты вмещают позднедевонские щелочные интрузии (в том числе и трубки взрыва).В статье представлены результаты U-Pb изотопного датирования зерен детритового циркона (dZr) из песчаников терской свиты, дополненные определениями химического состава пород и результатами их изотопного Sm-Nd изучения. Полученный средневзвешенный возраст четырех наиболее молодых зерен dZr из песчаников терской свиты составил 1145±20 млн лет, что означает, что часть разреза терской свиты, залегающая выше изученного уровня, не может быть древнее конца среднего рифея. Сравнительный анализ полученного набора U-Pb изотопных датировок зерен dZr (провенанс-сигнала) из песчаников терской свиты и аналогичных данных по другим верхнедокембрийским обломочным толщам, распространенным на северо-востоке Восточно-Европейской платформы и в сопредельных регионах, выявил существенные различия. Это находится в хорошем соответствии с представлениями о том, что палеогеографическую обстановку, господствовавшую в конце среднего и в позднем рифее в области заложения и развития рифтовой системы Белого моря (РСБМ), можно рассматривать как совокупность небольших (часто бессточных) бассейнов, разделенных поднятиями. Эти бассейны могли время от времени иметь связь с Мировым океаном. Такая палеогеографическая ситуация не благоприятствовала развитию крупных рек, поэтому грабены заполнялись преимущественно материалом местного происхождения. Кандалакшский и Керецкий грабены РСБМ заполнены осадками морского генезиса, представляющими собой преимущественно продукты размыва вещественных комплексов, участвующих в строении бортов этих грабенов. Среди местных локальных источников идентифицированы эклогитовые комплексы с возрастом метаморфизма ~1.9 млрд лет и базитовового магматизма с возрастом ~2.4–2.5 и ~2.7–2.9 млрд лет. Попадание зерен dZr, для которых нет потенциальных близких первичных источников, расположенных около Керецкого грабена, произошло за счет рециклинга из вторичных источников циркона – местных древних осадочных образований

Norms and values characteristics of students in a foreign cultural environment

The article presents empirical research data of cultural norms and values. Students of Kazan federal university took part in the research. The aim of the research was to reveal comparative data about cultural indexes (norms and values) of foreign students for whom Russia is a foreign cultural context. To achieve the purposes there were used methods known in social sciences: S. Schwarz and G. Triandis methods. Comparative data were received for students from China and Turkic speaking countries in comparison with Russian students presenting the culture of the host stay country. The results of study allow to state that learning in a foreign culture environment save differences of norms and values. It speaks for acculturization in a students' environment along the lines of integration when each group keeps and saves its own culture and at the same time tends to maintain contacts with the representatives of different culture. The factor analysis revealed tendencies concerning norms adopted in cultures of considered groups. Norms in contrast to values distinguish one group from another. Comparison of cultural values exposed that along with existing differences there are common value estimations. Thus, all three different ethno-cultural student groups ranking showed that safety is a dominant value. On the whole, the research found out that acculturization during the period of study in a foreign culture environment keeps differences of norms and values to a greater extent. © IDOSI Publications, 2013

Norms and values characteristics of students in a foreign cultural environment

The article presents empirical research data of cultural norms and values. Students of Kazan federal university took part in the research. The aim of the research was to reveal comparative data about cultural indexes (norms and values) of foreign students for whom Russia is a foreign cultural context. To achieve the purposes there were used methods known in social sciences: S. Schwarz and G. Triandis methods. Comparative data were received for students from China and Turkic speaking countries in comparison with Russian students presenting the culture of the host stay country. The results of study allow to state that learning in a foreign culture environment save differences of norms and values. It speaks for acculturization in a students' environment along the lines of integration when each group keeps and saves its own culture and at the same time tends to maintain contacts with the representatives of different culture. The factor analysis revealed tendencies concerning norms adopted in cultures of considered groups. Norms in contrast to values distinguish one group from another. Comparison of cultural values exposed that along with existing differences there are common value estimations. Thus, all three different ethno-cultural student groups ranking showed that safety is a dominant value. On the whole, the research found out that acculturization during the period of study in a foreign culture environment keeps differences of norms and values to a greater extent. © IDOSI Publications, 2013