Ethnoconfessional values of modern youth

The article presents the results of studying young people’s values, associated with their ethnic, religious and spiritual orientation. We presented the value orientations structure of the Baikal region ethno-religious groups in the form of four-factor model, the main elements of which were personal and religious values, social norms, spirituality and need for self-actualization, that determined the specificity of value orientations content of youth in multiethnic region. The considered system of value orientations among representatives of different ethnic confessions integrated various approaches to explanation of its contents by implementing of basic for domestic psychology principles of consciousness and activity unity, historicism, development, personal and systemic approaches. The analysis of structural and substantive characteristics of value orientations system of young people with multi-confessional affiliation allowed to prove that the specificity of value orientations system was in youth’s full possession of whole complex of its content, and the basic tools of awareness were language, formal resemblance, customs, morals, traditions, values. The most important determinants of Buryats’ value orientations system were presented by the historical past, memory, representations of native land and ancestors, folk art, national character. The diagnostic results confirmed that value orientations system differentiated by specific content of its structural components, which were presented in the form of factor model and included four single-ended factors: "personal values", "self-realization", "social norms", and "responsibility". The specific characteristics were the peculiarities, manifested in belonging to ethnic culture values, way of living, respecting ethnic group traditions.