The article presents the results of an analysis of studies of the responsibility category, performed in the 21st century by Russian andforeign psychologists. To search for Russian works, we used the databases of the Electronic Library of the Russian State Library and the Russian Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.ru To identify the works of foreign authors, we analysed 2910 journals from the Web of Science database (Social and Behavioural Sciences – Journal List). It was established that in Russian psychology, responsibility is understood as a form of self-regulation, realised in the consciousness of oneself as a subject of behaviour and its consequences. Russian researchers in the 21st century conduct clarifying studies of the formation and evolution of responsibility, studying the features of this mental phenomenon in representatives of various social groups and professions, and exploring the relationship between responsibility and success. In modern foreign psychology of the 21st century, responsibility has still been viewed from the angle of solving the practical problems of social psychology. We have revealed that most of the studies are clarifying in nature and are devoted to the characteristics of collective responsibility, morality and guilt. It seems important that both Russian and foreign researchers widely use the attributive approach.

The article discusses the features of the coping behaviour in the aspect of conceptualisation of stressful situations. A classification of coping strategies based on the criterion of subjectivity is proposed. The research of the correlation between the differentiated conceptualisation of stress and coping strategies among students of socio-humanitarian departments of different cultures (n=712) was demonstrated. The differentiated conceptualisation of stress was measured in a directed associative experiment, coping strategies by "Adolescent Coping Scale" (Erica Frydenberg & Ramon Lewis, 1993 – the ACS adapted variant). The reliable influence of a culture factor on the stress representations` gradation was obtained. The results indicated that Russian students' perceptions of stress differ from those of other cultures (p<0.05). The influence of the individual differentiated representations of stress on coping strategies was proved. A significant influence of the differentiated perception of stress on subject`s coping strategies (problem solving, work/achievement, anxiety, self-blame) and non-subject`s strategies (belonging, religious support, professional help) was revealed.