ECONOMIC-PSYCHOLOGICAL MATURITY OF A PERSONALITY IN THE SYSTEM OF RELATIONS WITH OTHER PEOPLE: DIFFERENCES IN TOLERANCE TO THE POOR AND RICH IN THE GROUP OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of differences in economic and psychological maturity of youth in the system of relations with other people. This problem is made specific in the object of the empirical research: to identify differences in the level of young people’s tolerance towards the poor and rich. The substance of the research compiles the analysis of young people’s tolerance to the poor and rich in correlation with economic perceptions of the three groups of respondents identified on the basis of factor analysis. The study showed that the economic and psychological maturity in the system of relations with other people is manifested not so much in the lack of psychological distance that respondents build between themselves and the poor / rich people, but in its conscious restriction. This position is related to economic views of young people with a consistent level of self-esteem subjective to the economic status and indicators of economic identity with their group («neither poor nor rich»).

Keywords

• economic and psychological maturity in the system of relations with other people
• tolerance to the poor and rich
• economic representations
• students