This article compares the ethical attitudes of Ukrainian business professionals with those of United States business professionals. A widely used survey instrument consisting of 16 hypothetical situations involving ethical dilemmas was employed to gather information on ethical attitudes in the two countries. On 13 of 16 vignettes, Ukrainian respondents demonstrated less stringent ethical attitudes than did their United States counterparts. Possible reasons for these differences are discussed, with primary emphasis on the transition from one economic system to another that is underway in Ukraine. Comments from Ukrainian respondents are presented so as to give an indication of the thought processes behind the questionnaire responses.

The article aims at presenting the potential and limitations of lifelines as a method used to collect biographic data. The lifeline facilitates recollection and sequencing of personal events. For this reason, it is helpful both for a person trying to recreate their own life history, and for a researcher who analyses the biography of such a person. The lifelines can be triangulated with other data collection methods to confirm and complete a life history. A sample lifeline from a study of PhD students at the main technical universities in Poland and Ukraine used to demonstrate the application of this method to research of biographic determinants of important life decisions.

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Introduction. The personal economic security is a complex phenomenon that consists of many components. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to identify and analyze which of these components contain the main threats that require priority protection of the individual. Aim. Based on the analysis of scientific psychological, economic, sociological, political sources devoted to the study of the personal economic security, clarify its content and parameters, highlight the main threats in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results. The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept "personal economic security", considered as a state of the economic consciousness, in which the subject must perceive the existing quality of life as adequate and reliable. The relevance of the study is confirmed by the list of modern publications dedicated the problem of the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the personal economic security. The article analyzes the content, target function and structure of the personal economic security. The essence of the categories "challenge", "danger", "threat", "risk", the ratio between them are disclosed. Threats to the personality economic security in a pandemic and the main directions of protection against these threats are shown. Conclusions. The information presented in the article can be useful in studying the psychological consequences of the impact to the personal economic security caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

The recent changes taking place in the European higher education systems leads to less stable, less secure and less attractive working conditions for academic teachers. Nonetheless, it is observed that the academic profession is attractive for young talented people. The research was aimed at studying educational biographies of engineers who took up PhD studies at technical universities in order to find out the importance of young people's experience and life history in making important life decisions (i.e. starting academic career). The biographical research was performed based on the material of lifelines and autobiographic essays prepared by PhD students of technical universities in Poland and Ukraine. The study included 56 participants of 23 to 30 years of age. A typology of biographical narratives was developed as a result of analysis of the research material. Additionally, the crucial similarities and differences between educational biographies of PhD students from Poland and from Ukraine were indicated. On the basis of the research it can be determined that traditional motives of undertaking the academic professioni.e. curiosity, professional status, and financial rewardsstill play a big role. New motives are also appearing: investing oneself and social mission. An academic profession is seen as a possibility of development and autonomy to a greater extent than in the economic sector. However, the lack of guarantee of employment at the university after PhD studies and lower remuneration in academic structures compared to the economic sector make it difficult to plan one's own future and choose academic career instead of a different career path.