Oleg Sychev
Biographic Data
| ID | 6090925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oleg Sychev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oleg |
| FAMILY NAME | Sychev |
| SIGNATURE | SYCHEV O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Altai State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0373-6916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Career Choice Motivation: Development and Approbation of a Questionnaire
Background. The relevance of career choice motivation assessment is primarily related to the need to identify adolescents who need help in choosing a profession. demonstrating a sense of uncertainty and helplessness before making such a fateful decision. Russian psychodiagnostics lacks techniques for assessing motivation in profession choosing that correspond to current theoretical approaches in the psychology of motivation. The proposed question…
Career Choice Motivation as a Mediator of the Association between Perceived Parenting Style and Professional Intentions of Medical Students
Background. The career intentions of students are of great importance in the context of the acute practical problem of medical graduates’ employment in health care organisation, but their psychological factors are still understudied. Objective. The goal was to analyse the relationship between the perceived parenting style and the career choice motivation with the career intentions of medical college students. Study Participants. 318 students of a…
Measuring Parenting Styles: A Russian Version of Perceived Parental Autonomy Support and Control Scale (P-Pass-RU)
Despite the ongoing urgency of the problem of child-parent relations and their impact on the development of a child's personality, there is a notable lack of valid and reliable Russian-language instrument for assessing parenting styles. The objective of this study is to develop a Russian-language adaptation of the P-PASS questionnaire, which measures perceived autonomy support and parental control (Mageau et al., 2015), and is based on the self-d…
The role of family in children's well-being: Why are teenagers from intact families more satisfied with life
Context and relevance. Children growing up in intact families with two biological parents typically demonstrate somewhat higher rates of well-being and success compared to children from single-parent and blended families. However, little is known about the psychological causes and mechanisms of this relationship and ways to compensate for this social developmental situation. Objective. To examine the role of satisfaction with family relationships…
Reading Motivation, Reading Literacy, and Problematic Internet Use in Adolescents
The article discusses motivation for recreational reading in secondary school students as a subjective factor associated with reading amount and reading literacy, which develops as they gain reading experience. The study is based on the self-determination theory, which identifies autonomous motivation, reflecting one’s own interests and values; controlled motivation, based on external pressure or orientation toward other people’s expectations, an…
Russian-Language Versions of Inventories Measuring Styles and Effectiveness of Conflict Resolution in Close Relationships
The article presents the results of the development of Russian-language versions of two inventories proposed by L. A. Kurdek to assess the conflicts in close relationships: The Ineffective Arguing Inventory and the Conflict Resolution Style Inventory. The theoretical basis of these inventories is the result of studies that have revealed the important role of conflict in the stability of the family and described the unproductive pattern of conflic…
Negative changes in emotional well-being and motivation in Russian adolescents between 1999 and 2020 / Cambios negativos en el bienestar emocional y la motivación en adolescentes rusos entre 1999 y 20…
Studies in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia show cohort increases in ill-being among adolescents in recent decades, and this is especially true for girls. The present study compared two Russian adolescent samples on both positive and negative emotions, via data collected in 1999 and in January 2020 (before the COVID-19 pandemic). The results show that joy was much lower and anger and anxiety were much higher in the 2020 cohort. Corresponding …
The Effects of Problematic Internet Use and Emotional Connotation on Internet Slang Processing: Evidence from a Lexical Decision Task
Moral Foundations as Factors of Socio-Economic Expectations of Russians
Objective. Analysis of the relationship of socio-economic expectations of Russians with moral foundations and socio-demographic characteristics. Background. Moral foundations theory has proved to be a very fruitful approach to the analysis of psychological factors of political views and preferences, but the problem of the relations between moral foundations and socio-economic expectations has not been considered in past studies. Study design. A c…
Loneliness and Social Support as Characteristics of Social Health and Factors of Social Media Addiction among Adolescents
Objective. The goal of the study was to look at how different levels of social health (loneliness and social support) show up in different ways in terms of how dependent people are on their social networks. Background. Loneliness and social support are considered as indicators of a teenager's social health, characterizing the inner experience of isolation from others and the breadth of the circle of contacts that a teenager can turn to for help. …
Moral Foundations Theory: Modern View on the Psychological Factors of Political Beliefs
Objective. The research is aimed at analyzing of the main achievements of Moral Foundations Theory in the study of problems of political psychology, as well as at reviewing its criticism and limitations. Background. In recent years, the problem of the psychological origins of political orientations and views has attracted considerable attention of researchers, due to the practical significance of predicting election results and preventing the man…
Self-concordant goals breed goal-optimism and thus well-being
Russian Version of the Sources of Spirituality Scale
The article presents the results of development of the Russian version of Sources of Spirituality Scale (SOS-Ru scale) based on the SOS scale by Davis et al. for assessing spiritual experiences connected with different objects: Theistic, Transcendent, Human, Nature, Self. Approbation of the Russian version was realized in the sample comprising 412 participants (70% were women) at the age from 17 till 69 y.o. (M=26.8; SD=9.65) who completed online…
Dynamics of Academic Motivation and Orientation towards the Grades of Russian Teenagers in the Period from 1999 to 2020
This study is devoted to the analysis of the dynamics of academic motivation in adolescents in 1999, and again 20 years later. The sample consisted of 735 students of the seventh and eighth grades of comprehensive secondary schools in Moscow (N=242 in 1999 and N=493 in Jan 2020). The results of the study indicate a decrease in all types of motivation, both intrinsic and various types of extrinsic, which indicates a significant change in the place…
Improving Comprehension: Intelligent Tutoring System Explaining the Domain Rules When Students Break Them
Intelligent tutoring systems have become increasingly common in assisting students but are often aimed at isolated subject-domain tasks without creating a scaffolding system from lower- to higher-level cognitive skills, with low-level skills often neglected. We designed and developed an intelligent tutoring system, CompPrehension, which aims to improve the comprehension level of Bloom’s taxonomy. The system features plug-in-based architecture, ea…
What are Young People in Russia Proud and Ashamed of? The Role of Basic Personal Values
Objective. Analysis of the relationship between the reasons for pride and shame of the country among young people with different value orientations in Russia. Background. In the last decade, there has been a certain trend towards disagreement in society on key issues of the cultural and political agenda. As a rule, the split is associated with value differences between generations, but differences in values themselves in one generation are not co…
Relationship of Ethic of Autonomy, Community and Nationalism to Russians’ Foreign Policy Attitudes
Objectives. The aim was to study the association between moral foundations and Russians’ foreign policy attitudes. Background. There is a growing interest in the factors that determine attitudes towards other peoples and countries, but the foreign policy attitudes of citizens that determine their support of the respective state’s foreign policy remain insufficiently researched. This study examines the foreign policy attitudes in the context of th…
Moral Foundations and Intention to Vote on Presidential Elections in Russia
Objectives. The aim was to study the relationship between moral foundations and intention of voting on the presidential elections in Russia. Background. Voting in political elections is important for consensus of society but a large proportion of voters don’t vote that may depend on psychological characteristics among other factors. There is a growing interest in the world in the moral factors of political preferences and voter turnout due to the…
Evaluating the Dimensionality of Self-Determination Theory’s Relative Autonomy Continuum
We conducted a theoretical and psychometric evaluation of self-determination theory’s “relative autonomy continuum” (RAC), an important aspect of the theory whose validity has recently been questioned. We first derived a Comprehensive Relative Autonomy Index (C-RAI) containing six subscales and 24 items, by conducting a paired paraphrase content analysis of existing RAI measures. We administered the C-RAI to multiple U.S. and Russian samples, ass…
Evaluating Optimism: Developing Children’s Version of Optimistic Attributional Style Questionnaire
People differ significantly in how they usually explain to themselves the reasons of events, both positive and negative, that happen in their lives. Psychological research shows that children who tend to think optimistically have certain advantages as compared to their pessimistically thinking peers: they are less likely to suffer from depression, establish more positive relationships with peers, and demonstrate higher academic achievements. This…
Features of Moral Foundations in Mongol, German and Russian Adolescents
The difference in moral foundations between adults living in Western or Eastern countries is well-known, but there is lack of evidence about such difference in adolescence. We tested the hypothesis about cultural differences of moral foundations in Mongolian, Russian and German adolescents. As the methodology of the study we used Moral Foundations Theory describing five basic dimensions of moral domain including Harm/Care, Fair- ness/Reciprocity,…
Self-Control as a Personality Resource: Assessment and Associations with Performance, Persistence and Well-Being
Self-control is one’s ability to control one’s own behavior and emotional expression, to react to external events in a deliberate manner, and to interrupt actions motivated by undesirable impulses or affects. We present two studies aimed to validate a Russian-language version of the 13-item Brief Self-Control Scale by J.P. Tangney, R.F. Baumeister and A.L. Boone in samples of employees (N=591) and students (N=328). Confirmatory factor analysis su…
Negative changes in emotional well-being and motivation in Russian adolescents between 1999 and 2020 / Cambios negativos en el bienestar emocional y la motivación en adolescentes rusos entre 1999 y 20…
Studies in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia show cohort increases in ill-being among adolescents in recent decades, and this is especially true for girls. The present study compared two Russian adolescent samples on both positive and negative emotions, via data collected in 1999 and in January 2020 (before the COVID-19 pandemic). The results show that joy was much lower and anger and anxiety were much higher in the 2020 cohort. Corresponding …
Features of Moral Foundations in Mongol, German and Russian Adolescents
The difference in moral foundations between adults living in Western or Eastern countries is well-known, but there is lack of evidence about such difference in adolescence. We tested the hypothesis about cultural differences of moral foundations in Mongolian, Russian and German adolescents. As the methodology of the study we used Moral Foundations Theory describing five basic dimensions of moral domain including Harm/Care, Fair- ness/Reciprocity,…
Self-Control as a Personality Resource: Assessment and Associations with Performance, Persistence and Well-Being
Self-control is one’s ability to control one’s own behavior and emotional expression, to react to external events in a deliberate manner, and to interrupt actions motivated by undesirable impulses or affects. We present two studies aimed to validate a Russian-language version of the 13-item Brief Self-Control Scale by J.P. Tangney, R.F. Baumeister and A.L. Boone in samples of employees (N=591) and students (N=328). Confirmatory factor analysis su…
Evaluating the Dimensionality of Self-Determination Theory’s Relative Autonomy Continuum
We conducted a theoretical and psychometric evaluation of self-determination theory’s “relative autonomy continuum” (RAC), an important aspect of the theory whose validity has recently been questioned. We first derived a Comprehensive Relative Autonomy Index (C-RAI) containing six subscales and 24 items, by conducting a paired paraphrase content analysis of existing RAI measures. We administered the C-RAI to multiple U.S. and Russian samples, ass…
Evaluating Optimism: Developing Children’s Version of Optimistic Attributional Style Questionnaire
People differ significantly in how they usually explain to themselves the reasons of events, both positive and negative, that happen in their lives. Psychological research shows that children who tend to think optimistically have certain advantages as compared to their pessimistically thinking peers: they are less likely to suffer from depression, establish more positive relationships with peers, and demonstrate higher academic achievements. This…
Moral Foundations and Intention to Vote on Presidential Elections in Russia
Objectives. The aim was to study the relationship between moral foundations and intention of voting on the presidential elections in Russia. Background. Voting in political elections is important for consensus of society but a large proportion of voters don’t vote that may depend on psychological characteristics among other factors. There is a growing interest in the world in the moral factors of political preferences and voter turnout due to the…
Improving Comprehension: Intelligent Tutoring System Explaining the Domain Rules When Students Break Them
Intelligent tutoring systems have become increasingly common in assisting students but are often aimed at isolated subject-domain tasks without creating a scaffolding system from lower- to higher-level cognitive skills, with low-level skills often neglected. We designed and developed an intelligent tutoring system, CompPrehension, which aims to improve the comprehension level of Bloom’s taxonomy. The system features plug-in-based architecture, ea…
What are Young People in Russia Proud and Ashamed of? The Role of Basic Personal Values
Objective. Analysis of the relationship between the reasons for pride and shame of the country among young people with different value orientations in Russia. Background. In the last decade, there has been a certain trend towards disagreement in society on key issues of the cultural and political agenda. As a rule, the split is associated with value differences between generations, but differences in values themselves in one generation are not co…
Relationship of Ethic of Autonomy, Community and Nationalism to Russians’ Foreign Policy Attitudes
Objectives. The aim was to study the association between moral foundations and Russians’ foreign policy attitudes. Background. There is a growing interest in the factors that determine attitudes towards other peoples and countries, but the foreign policy attitudes of citizens that determine their support of the respective state’s foreign policy remain insufficiently researched. This study examines the foreign policy attitudes in the context of th…
Self-concordant goals breed goal-optimism and thus well-being
Russian Version of the Sources of Spirituality Scale
The article presents the results of development of the Russian version of Sources of Spirituality Scale (SOS-Ru scale) based on the SOS scale by Davis et al. for assessing spiritual experiences connected with different objects: Theistic, Transcendent, Human, Nature, Self. Approbation of the Russian version was realized in the sample comprising 412 participants (70% were women) at the age from 17 till 69 y.o. (M=26.8; SD=9.65) who completed online…
Dynamics of Academic Motivation and Orientation towards the Grades of Russian Teenagers in the Period from 1999 to 2020
This study is devoted to the analysis of the dynamics of academic motivation in adolescents in 1999, and again 20 years later. The sample consisted of 735 students of the seventh and eighth grades of comprehensive secondary schools in Moscow (N=242 in 1999 and N=493 in Jan 2020). The results of the study indicate a decrease in all types of motivation, both intrinsic and various types of extrinsic, which indicates a significant change in the place…
Moral Foundations as Factors of Socio-Economic Expectations of Russians
Objective. Analysis of the relationship of socio-economic expectations of Russians with moral foundations and socio-demographic characteristics. Background. Moral foundations theory has proved to be a very fruitful approach to the analysis of psychological factors of political views and preferences, but the problem of the relations between moral foundations and socio-economic expectations has not been considered in past studies. Study design. A c…
Loneliness and Social Support as Characteristics of Social Health and Factors of Social Media Addiction among Adolescents
Objective. The goal of the study was to look at how different levels of social health (loneliness and social support) show up in different ways in terms of how dependent people are on their social networks. Background. Loneliness and social support are considered as indicators of a teenager's social health, characterizing the inner experience of isolation from others and the breadth of the circle of contacts that a teenager can turn to for help. …
Moral Foundations Theory: Modern View on the Psychological Factors of Political Beliefs
Objective. The research is aimed at analyzing of the main achievements of Moral Foundations Theory in the study of problems of political psychology, as well as at reviewing its criticism and limitations. Background. In recent years, the problem of the psychological origins of political orientations and views has attracted considerable attention of researchers, due to the practical significance of predicting election results and preventing the man…
Russian-Language Versions of Inventories Measuring Styles and Effectiveness of Conflict Resolution in Close Relationships
The article presents the results of the development of Russian-language versions of two inventories proposed by L. A. Kurdek to assess the conflicts in close relationships: The Ineffective Arguing Inventory and the Conflict Resolution Style Inventory. The theoretical basis of these inventories is the result of studies that have revealed the important role of conflict in the stability of the family and described the unproductive pattern of conflic…
Negative changes in emotional well-being and motivation in Russian adolescents between 1999 and 2020 / Cambios negativos en el bienestar emocional y la motivación en adolescentes rusos entre 1999 y 20…
Studies in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia show cohort increases in ill-being among adolescents in recent decades, and this is especially true for girls. The present study compared two Russian adolescent samples on both positive and negative emotions, via data collected in 1999 and in January 2020 (before the COVID-19 pandemic). The results show that joy was much lower and anger and anxiety were much higher in the 2020 cohort. Corresponding …
The Effects of Problematic Internet Use and Emotional Connotation on Internet Slang Processing: Evidence from a Lexical Decision Task
Reading Motivation, Reading Literacy, and Problematic Internet Use in Adolescents
The article discusses motivation for recreational reading in secondary school students as a subjective factor associated with reading amount and reading literacy, which develops as they gain reading experience. The study is based on the self-determination theory, which identifies autonomous motivation, reflecting one’s own interests and values; controlled motivation, based on external pressure or orientation toward other people’s expectations, an…
Career Choice Motivation: Development and Approbation of a Questionnaire
Background. The relevance of career choice motivation assessment is primarily related to the need to identify adolescents who need help in choosing a profession. demonstrating a sense of uncertainty and helplessness before making such a fateful decision. Russian psychodiagnostics lacks techniques for assessing motivation in profession choosing that correspond to current theoretical approaches in the psychology of motivation. The proposed question…
Career Choice Motivation as a Mediator of the Association between Perceived Parenting Style and Professional Intentions of Medical Students
Background. The career intentions of students are of great importance in the context of the acute practical problem of medical graduates’ employment in health care organisation, but their psychological factors are still understudied. Objective. The goal was to analyse the relationship between the perceived parenting style and the career choice motivation with the career intentions of medical college students. Study Participants. 318 students of a…
Measuring Parenting Styles: A Russian Version of Perceived Parental Autonomy Support and Control Scale (P-Pass-RU)
Despite the ongoing urgency of the problem of child-parent relations and their impact on the development of a child's personality, there is a notable lack of valid and reliable Russian-language instrument for assessing parenting styles. The objective of this study is to develop a Russian-language adaptation of the P-PASS questionnaire, which measures perceived autonomy support and parental control (Mageau et al., 2015), and is based on the self-d…
The role of family in children's well-being: Why are teenagers from intact families more satisfied with life
Context and relevance. Children growing up in intact families with two biological parents typically demonstrate somewhat higher rates of well-being and success compared to children from single-parent and blended families. However, little is known about the psychological causes and mechanisms of this relationship and ways to compensate for this social developmental situation. Objective. To examine the role of satisfaction with family relationships…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology of Development and Education (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)