Specifics of Personal Self-esteem During Intercultural Adaptation of Repatriated Students in High School

This survey was conducted in 2006 - 2010 to study the specifics of personal self-esteem during intercultural adaptation of the repatriates in the educational environment of high school. The subject of inquiry was the repatriated students from China and Mongolia. Sample volume – 106 people.The survey used a range of psychological methods and techniques: content analysis of documents, questioning, peer reviews (scaling), and specific psychodiagnostic techniques - incomplete sentences, sociometry, Budassi test, questionnaire on adaptation of individual to the new social and cultural environment (L. V. Yankovsky), and various statistical treatment methods.It was revealed that:1)Self-esteem is one of the socio-psychological factors of successful intercultural adaptation of repatriated students in the educational environment of high school.2)The dynamics of changing of self-esteem of the repatriates at different stages of learning depend on its initial level; people with high self-esteem experience less fluctuations of self-esteem than people with the average level of self-esteem.3)Creation of a system of social and psychological support of the repatriates enhances the effectiveness of intercultural adaptation of repatriated students in high schools.