Level of Ethnic Integration of Image Sphere of Potential Immigrant Personality

Abstract

The article focuses on a level of ethnic integration of an image sphere of a potential immigrant personality. The concept of an «image sphere» is interpreted as a determinate multidimensional dynamic system of secondary psychic images and as a system that can fulfill integrating/differentiating function with/from an actual ethnosphere. The author introduces a coefficient of ethnic integration of an image sphere (Ie), the coefficient being determined by calculating the ratio of an observed number of positively and significantly experienced ethnically coordinated elements of an image sphere of a person to a number of ethnodifferentiating image elements.