The empirical research on of Mongolian and Russian adolescents is aimed to determine differences in the structure and content of the components of Mongolian and Russian adolescents’ personal and social identities. The identity feature of Mongolian adolescents is their greater involvement in various groups, compared with Russian ones. Firstly, this is expressed by their more frequent statement of membership in large and small groups. This determines the social, normative and emotional content of Mongolian adolescents’ membership, conditioned by the traditional culture values. The significance of traditional ideas about male and female roles is manifested through the differentiated gender characteristics among Mongolian adolescents. Secondly, we have identified the social orientation of Mongolian adolescents (a perspective vision of oneself as a “good citizen” and “a worthy family member” which is not found among Russian adolescents).

Crosscultural pecularities of self-identification of Buryat and Mongol adolescents