Study of ethnic identity in youth of Russia and youth-migrants from Central Asia with personal helplessness and independence

The paper presents an analysis of such concepts as ethnic identity, personal helplessness and independence. The article also describes the types of ethnic identity among Russian youth and young migrants from Central Asia and their severity in young people with personal helplessness and independence. For young people belonging to different ethnic groups, the significance of ethnicity is established. As part of the study of cultural and ethnic conditioning of personal helplessness, not only ethnic and cultural conditions of life are considered, but also ethnic identity, as well as values transmitted by the subject, both general and family. The study of factors belonging to the category of cultural and ethnic factors in the context of the concept of personal helplessness under consideration will help to create a theoretical basis for solving applied problems aimed at preventing and correcting personal helplessness. The peculiarities of the manifestation of ethnic identity at a young age, can act as a result of defining oneself in the modern ethnic space. In the modern multi-ethnic world, it is ethnic identity that is evaluated as one of the significant conditions for the development and formation of the individual.