Ideas of Personality About Enemy Influenced by Attitudes to Other People and Ethnic Identity

The paper touches on the problem of influence of one's system of attitudes on the personality's ideas about Another as an Enemy. It has been found that highly manifested acceptance of other people and friendliness are interrelated with perceiving the Enemy mostly as a manipulator; the lower levels of acceptance of other people and friendliness to them are interrelated with perceiving the Enemy mainly as an alien communication partner in both cognitive and value plane. Social and psychological characteristics of a personality's ideas about the Enemy differ depending the modalities of the personality's positive attitudes toward other people, which confirms the hypothesis suggested by the authors, and they do not differ depending on the extent of pronouncement of parameters of its ethnic identity. The results of the study can be used in psychological counseling, in developing the tolerance training programs. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.