Interpersonal relations in polyethnic environment as person's psychological safety indicator

The article describes the basic results of an empirical research of perception ofinterpersonal relations by respondents of different ethnic origin. The possibility of using the data on character of interpersonal relationsfor the analysis of psychological safety of the person in the conditions of different polyethnic environments is shown. The modern ethnicenvironment represents a multicultural formation where "ethnocultural" symbols and artifacts transformed in ''consumption products''freely cross national borders, testing the influence of the variety of types of structures and values of "ethnic distinctions'' and, in turn,influencing the formation of such a variety. The psychological analysis of a society as a polyethnic formation is based on the idea thatmany people in the modern world do not belong to a single ethnic group being members of two and more communities, carriers ofseveral cultures that form highly diversified combinations, thus being in constant dynamics. The polyethnic society is thereby a societyof social diversity, which, as scientists consider, is essentially changeable. The influence of the polyethnic situation on interpersonalrelations is ambiguously estimated by researchers. On the one hand, opinions are expressed that a polyethnic environment expandspossibilities of interaction with representatives of others ethnic communities, knowledge of features of one's own and other ethnicgroups, forms and develops ethnic awareness and skills of cross-cultural interaction. The primary goal of research consisted in revealingand comparison of the perception of interpersonal relations (including participation in interaction, emotionality level, control of thesituation when interacting with other people) by respondents from auto- and polyethnic environments. The research showed thatpolyethnic environment due to the frustration of the main needs increases sensual relations with a bigger number of people, there is aneed to be accepted by everyone in the environment. Respondents from different polyethnic environments connect psychological safetywith realisation of different needs. Thus, the perception of interpersonal relations by respondents from different polyethnic environmentscan act as the indicator of psychological safety feeling of the person. In this connection new aspects of research of psychological safetyand possibility of carrying out of effective psychological work appear when creating conditions for realization of intra- and interpersonalneeds of the person taking into account its ethnic belonging and features of the polyethnic environment.

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