Communicative tolerance of students of higher educational establishments in the context of social and economic dimension of the region

Abstract

Tolerance is one of the most significant social-psychological phenomena and behavioral characteristics of individuals and social groups. The number of reasons for the manifestation of tolerance, moreover – destructive tolerance in the modern sociocultural and economic-political context is steadily increasing and therefore requires multicenter study and explanation of these phenomena. The authors of this article have studied the communicative tolerance of students of higher educational establishments in the Tolyatti city district through social and economic measurement of the level of development of qualities and characteristics which are inherent in intolerant individual in terms of interpersonal relations. The study was conducted at the premises of three higher educational establishments in the Tolyatti city district: Volga Region State University of Service, Tolyatti State University and Volzhsky University named after V.N. Tatischev – 240 respondents aged 18–25 (March-April 2017). The study of young people has demonstrated that impatience is one of the characteristic psychological traits for adolescence.