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Radical changes in socio-political, economic, and cultural landscape
destroying the stability and sustainability of human existence stir the need for seeking
fundamentals of this stability which lies in the bowels of the collective unconscious
and reside in the archetypical matrices. One of the basic archetypes is the archetype
of the home, and it underpins the formation of basic security and human identity.
The identification of functional characteristics and levels of this archetypal construct
may be of interest to the problems of security and ethnic identity.
The exploration of these issues requires a reference to particular concepts of sociopsychological,
cultural-and-historic, socio-cultural, axiological, and socio-philosophical
approaches to studying the psychological and cultural phenomenon.
The treatment of security and ethnic identity’ issues is linked to studying the substance
of a defensive and identifying function of the home archetype which symbolically
realizes itself as a mythological, and a social, and an architectural, as a geographical,
and as ethnic space.
The home archetype actualization manifests itself in the unconscious aspiration to
successful searches of a secure living space which becomes a reference point for
the subject’s awareness of his place in the world. If the influence of archetypal
home reduces, people no longer feel their belonging to any place or community,
and their sense of social responsibility weakens, too.
Since the realities of today’s world are full of disturbing events such as wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, violent crimes, the news of which is instantly transmitted through the media around the world, the subject’s sense of psychological security is severely threatened. Furthermore, globalisation processes and the transition from an industrial and post-industrial to an information society have greatly intensified the processes of inter-ethnic interaction through active internal and external migration, tourism, modern information and communication technologies, etc. The need to adapt to life in the new country of residence for migrants and to face the transformation of their familiar environment and anxiety regarding their own group status for the population of host countries, make the issue of psychological security be of the highest relevancy. In this context, a study of acculturation expectations of the host population and security needs satisfaction among residents of three regions of the Russian Federation was undertaken upon the basis of the method of the ‘Assessment of Personal Satisfaction with Security Needs’ (O.Y. Zotova), and the acculturation analysis technique suggested by J. Berry, and modified by Z.H. Lepshokova, A.N. Tatarko. The study has shown that priorities in the choice of acculturation strategies across regions that determine the nature of inter-ethnic interaction are differentiated by region, their link to psychological security is present, although not always obvious, and demonstrates regional specificity due to the action of a number of additional factors.
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