Imagery determination of commitment to the country as part of the socio-psychological capital of the personality of students

The article contains the results of theoretical analysis and empirical research of imagery determination of students personality commitment to their country. The commitment of a personality to the country is considered in line with the theory of psychological relations of the personality, actively developed in modern social psychology, and within the framework of the concept of socio-psychological capital of the personality, proposed by A. N. Tatarko. The purpose of this article is to analyse the role of subjective images of the past, present and future of the country in building personality’s commitment to the country. To achieve this goal, an empirical research was conducted, which was attended by 207 University students (125 women and 82 men) aged 18 to 23 years, all citizens of Russia. The research was conducted in compliance with the principle of anonymity of participation and using the author’s fact-finding questionnaire “Commitment to their country”, the developed imagery-associative test “The Image of Russia and Foreign Countries” and colour relations test. As a result of the study it was found out that subjectively constructed, positively significant images of the future of the country play the most important role in the formation of students’ commitment to their country.