Cultural and ethnic factor of personal helplessness development: theoretical background of the research

The problem of personal helplessness development among children and adolescents is relevant, but insufficiently studied in modern psychology. The article presents a theoretical analysis of environmental factors of personal helplessness development. There are also revealed possible cultural and ethnic predictors of personal helplessness. The study of cultural and ethnic determinants of personal helplessness includes consideration of ethnic and cultural conditions of life of an individual, peculiarities of their lifestyle, transmitted common and family values, as well as ethnic identity of the subject. The study of cultural and ethnic factors in the context of the concept of personal helplessness opens up prospects for creating a theoretical basis for solving applied problems related to the prevention and correction of personal helplessness, allows to develop the concept of personal helplessness, to discover new data about the nature of the phenomenon under study.