PSYCHOLOGY IN RUSSIA: STATE OF THE ArT Volume 9 Issue 1 2016 Editorial 2 SpECIAL ISSUE “MULTICULTURALISM AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS” Multiculturalism and intercultural relations: Regional cases Comparative analysis of Canadian multiculturalism policy and the multiculturalism policies of other countries 4 Berry J. Is multiculturalism in Russia possible? Intercultural relations in North Ossetia-Alania 24 Galyapina V. N., Lebedeva N. M. Intercultural relations in Russia and Latvia: the relationship between contact and cultural security 41 Lebedeva N. M., Tatarko A. N., Berry J. Intercultural relations in Kabardino-Balkaria: Does integration always lead to subjective well-being? 57 Lepshokova Z. Kh., Tatarko A. N. Ethno-confessional identity and complimentarity in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 74 Mikhailova V. V., Nadkin V. B. The representation of love among Brazilians, Russians and Central Africans: A comparative analysis 84 Pilishvili T. S., Koyanongo E. Assimilation or integration: Similarities and differences between acculturation attitudes of migrants from Central Asia and Russians in Central Russia 98 Ryabichenko T. A., Lebedeva N. M. Intercultural relationships in the students’ environment Ethnoreligious attitudes of contemporary Russian students toward labor migrants as a social group 112 Abakumova I. V., Boguslavskaya V. F., Grishina A. V. Ethnopsychological aspects of the meaning-of-life and value orientations of Armenian and Russian students 121 Berberyan A. S., Berberyan H. S. Readiness for interaction with inoethnic subjects of education and ethnic worldview 138 Valiev R. A., Valieva T. V., Maksimova L.A., Karimova V. G. Multiculturalism in public and private spaces On analyzing the results of empirical research into the life-purpose orientations of adults of various ethnic identities and religious affiliations 155 Abakumova I. V., Ermakov P. N., Kolesina K. Y. Examining the public’s exposure to reports about ethnic groups in mainstream Russian media 164 Gladkova A. A., Korobeynikova K. A. Attitude as labor migrants’ social-psychological adaptation factor (Labor migrants from Uzbekistan taken as examples) 178 Mokretcova O. G., Chrustaleva N. S., Fedorov V. F., Karpova E. B., Shkliaruk S. P. Book reviews Warrior’s Spirit: Review of Michael Matthews’s book Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War 190 Karayani A. G. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art Russian Lomonosov Psychological Moscow State Volume 9, Issue 1, 2016 Society University Editorial The special issue of “Psychology in Russia: State of the Art” — “Multiculturalism and intercultural relations: Comparative analysis” — deals with urgent social issues facing contemporary society. The choice of articles was guided by the need of more detailed and deeper understanding of multiculturalism as a demographic phenomenon, as well as an ideology reflecting individuals’ and groups’ views about their acceptance or rejection in their diversity, and as a matter of public policies and social programs. These features are studied in their close interrelation. TheMulticulturalism and intercultural relations: Regional cases section provides valuable data and conclusions about intercultural relations in different regions. Professor John Berry, the guest editor, performs comparative analysis of Canadian multiculturalism policy and the multiculturalism policies of other countries based on data from around the world. A number of Russian regions becomes the focus of the authors’ analyses. Victoria N. Galyapina and Nadezhda M. Lebedeva study intercultural relations in North Ossetia-Alania, in their pursuit of finding out whether multiculturalism in Russia is possible. Zarina Kh. Lepshokova and Aleksandr N. Tatarko analyze intercultural relations in Kabardino-Balkaria through the perspective of people’s subjective well-being. Victoria V. Mikhailova and Valery B. Nadkin use the notion of complimentarity, elaborated by an outstanding Russian historian and anthropologist Lev Gumilyev, to investigate ethno-confessional identity in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Tatyana A. Ryabichenko and Nadezhda M. Lebedeva review similarities and differences between acculturation attitudes of migrants from Central Asia and Russians in Central Russia. Furthermore, Nadezhda M. Lebedeva, Aleksand N. Tatarko and John Berry study intercultural relations in Russia and Latvia in the context of the relationship between contact with the other cultural groups and perceived cultural security. Tatyana S. Pilishvili and Eugénie Koyanongo perform a comparative analysis of the representation of love among Brazilians, Russians and people of Central Africa. The Intercultural relationships in the students’ environment section provides with study of ethnopsychological peculiarities and social attitudes of contemporary ISSN 2074-6857 (Print) / ISSN 2307-2202 (Online) © Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2016 © Russian Psychological Society, 2016 doi: 10.11621/pir.2016.0100 http://psychologyinrussia.com Editorial 3 youth. Irina V. Abakumova, Victoria F. Boguslavskaya and Anastasiya V. Grishina investigate ethnoreligious attitudes of contemporary Russian students toward labor migrants as a social group. Ravil A. Valiev, Tatiana V. Valieva, Lyudmila A. Maksi- mova and Valentina G. Karimova describe and evaluate readiness for interaction with subjects, perceived as strangers by the students and teachers of titular ethni- city, as well as ethnic worldview in the students’ environment. Asya S. Berberyan and Hermine S. Berberyan study ethnopsychological aspects of life’s purpose and personality values among Armenian and Russian students. The Multiculturalism in public and private spaces section is composed of works on personal attitudes and religious affiliations as well as impact of media on mul- tiethnic society. Irina V. Abakumova, Pavel N. Ermakov and Karina Y. Kolesina analyze the empirical results of a research on life’s purpose orientations in adults of various ethnic identities and religious affiliations. Anna A. Gladkova and Ksenia A. Korobeynikova analyze the public’s exposure to reports about ethnic groups in mainstream Russian media. Olga G. Mokretcova with the group of collaborators investigate attitude as labor migrants’ social-psychological adaptation factor, taking labor migrants from Uzbekistan, the most voluminous migrants’ ethnic group in Russia, as an example. The Book reviews section is the only part of the issue outside of its main topic. It provides an interesting review of Michael Matthews’s book Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War by Aleksandr G. Karayani. Our hope is that advances in multiculturalism and intercultural relationships studies will become efficient tool for preventing civil and military conflicts in the world. Yury P. Zinchenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia First published online March 30, 2016 Psychology in Russia: State of the Art Russian Lomonosov Psychological Moscow State Volume 9, Issue 1, 2016 Society University SPECIAL ISSUE “MULTICULTURALIsm AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS” Multiculturalism AND intercultural relations: Regional cases Comparative analysis of Canadian multiculturalism policy and the multiculturalism policies of other countries John Berry a, b a International Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia b Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Multiculturalism is an increasingly common characteristic of contemporary societies. In culturally diverse social contexts, virtually every person experiences intercultural contact on a daily basis. It is essential to understand that there must be both cultural diversity and equity in social participation for true multiculturalism to exist in these settings. Beyond its core definition, it is clear that multiculturalism is a complex concept encompassing many dimensions and meanings. First, the term is understood to describe a demographic fact, indicating the existence of cultural diversity in a society. Second, multiculturalism refers to the policies and programs that are in place to manage intercultural relations and acculturation. Third, multiculturalism refers to psychological phenomena, includ- ing individual attitudes and ideologies that accept or reject the demographic, civic and policy features of multiculturalism. This chapter considers Canadian multiculturalism policy, examining how the multiple meanings of multiculturalism vary around the world. Within this framework, I highlight the psychological processes and outcomes of multi- culturalism, particularly in connection with acculturation, adaptation and intercultural relations and consider whether these processes and outcomes differ for dominant and non-dominant groups. I suggest some ways in which to enhance the positive outcomes of intercultural contact and the resultant acculturation outcomes. Finally, this chapter sets the stage for the presentation of the other chapters in this volume. It elaborates three ISSN 2074-6857 (Print) / ISSN 2307-2202 (Online) © Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2016 © Russian Psychological Society, 2016 doi: 10.11621/pir.2016.0101 http://psychologyinrussia.com Comparative analysis of Canadian multiculturalism policy… 5 hypotheses derived from Canadian multiculturalism policy: the multiculturalism, inte- gration and contact hypotheses. Keywords: integration, multiculturalism, acculturation