Evgeny Pronenko’s research while affiliated with Don State Technical University and other places

With an increasing population, the problem of shortage of food resources is growing. Modern production and agriculture can overcome this problem through the use of biotechnology. However, the growing demand for organic products is becoming an obstacle to mass production. In order to change consumer demand, the manufacturer needs to know the characteristics of consumer perception of various product categories. So in the case of organic goods, people are willing to overpay because of the feeling of their safety and health benefits. Low awareness of modern food production methods results in consumers refusing to choose products created through biotechnology. Including people are afraid to buy alternative sources of protein. The most popular substitute for natural meat is vegetable meat. Less popular but promising protein sources include insects, cultured meat, and 3D printed meat. Neophobia and aversion are barriers to the consumption of alternative protein sources. These barriers can be broken down through positive customer awareness of the product.

The influence of nature on the psychological state of a person needs to be studied in connection with ongoing urbanization. Every day taller houses are being built, groves are being cut down for the construction of new residential complexes and greenery in urban areas is being reduced. At the same time cases of urban population reporting symptoms of depression, apathy and anxiety are becoming more frequent. Our review allows us to consider how urban greening affects the mental well-being of the population and what is the relationship between interaction with green areas and the development of human personality. It has been established that nature influences the mental state and well-being of a person both directly and indirectly through physical activity. Presencing children in nature encourages the development of their cognitive sphere, improving memory and creativity. There is a direction called ecopsychology, the central method of which is ecotherapy, which affects human psychology through therapeutic activities in green areas.

See the retraction notice BIO Web of Conferences 84, 00001 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20248400001

See the retraction notice BIO Web of Conferences 84, 00001 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20248400001

Modern universities face an acute problem of ensuring students’ involvement in the learning process and their motivation for learning activities. One of the solutions may be to create conditions for the emergence of a state of “flow”, the concept of which was developed by M. Csikszentmihalyi. The study involved 109 students (98 women and 11 men) of bachelor’s and master’s degrees of the Faculty of Psychology of the Southern Federal University. A special questionnaire based on M. Csikszentmihalyi’s theory was designed to determine the expression of the components of the “flow” state in the respondents’ learning activities. The results show that many students feel a balance between the content of the lecture and their ability to understand its content, many students feel inner satisfaction after attending seminars. The obtained data correlate with the data of researchers on this topic, who noted the connection of flow states with motivations, meanings, predisposition to achievement and self-regulation.

The article analyzes the features of the self-identification process in the modern informational world and describes the risks of the digital space. On the example of studying representatives of different age groups, the analysis of preferred computer games is carried out and the features of virtual computer game reality are described. The article substantiates the thesis that in a situation of ex-cessive enthusiasm for computer games the virtual reality of a computer game can be one of the factors in the transformation of the Self-image of an active user if there is an identification with the heroes of the game. The empirical results of studying the transformation of the self image of active users of computer games (using the example of junior schoolchildren) are given and destructive changes in the Self-image in a situation of excessive immersion in the field of virtual game reality are described (uncertainty in the descriptions of the physical self, weak reflection of one’s own emotional experiences and bodily sensations, unrealistic level of aspirations, inadequate self-esteem).

In this article, the author tries to draw attention to academic procrastination issue. The author gives a definition of the phenomenon, due to the lack of a generally accepted one in the scientific field. The relevance of the study is determined by the prevalence of academic procrastination in the educational environment, a student's insufficient immersion in the educational process in order to obtain skills important for their specialty, the loss of opportunities to gain additional knowledge (additional courses, trainings, etc.), the loss of potential opportunities provided by the university (competitions, grants, participation in student scientific societies, etc.), the procrastinator's influence on their inner circle and teachers, as well as the lack of a reliable method of coping with academic procrastination. The novelty of the study lies in the consideration of academic procrastination as an integral part of the meaning structure of one’s personality.

Continuing to search for the reasons for the alienation of students from education, we turn to the psychology of meaning by D. A. Leont’ev. It is necessary to consider education in the life of students from the point of view of its life meaning for them. In our opinion, the place and role of education in the lives of students can expand the understanding of psychological science about the reasons for their alienation from education. The sought-for relations of the life meaning of learning with metacognitive awareness will complement the view of the mechanism of formation of students' attitude to education. The results obtained indicate that there are significant direct correlations between the life meaningfulness of education for psychology students and their metacognitive awareness. In addition, according to the results of the study, it can be concluded that there is an inverse relationship between the life meaningfulness of education for psychology students and their level of alienation from education.

For sustainable development in various fields, highly qualified personnel are required. One of the ways to train such personnel is to involve young people in scientific activities while studying at the university. The author asks questions: how do students of psychological specialties perceive scientific activities, what emotional states arise in students when thinking about scientific activities or directly in the process of doing it. The introduction contains researches devoted to students' research activities; author presents his own model. The section "Methods" describes the sample: 73 students of psychological specialties; the author's questionnaire is given. The section "Results" reveals the students' opinion on how scientific activity can be included in various types of student activity, students' perception of scientific activity and their emotional states when thinking about it. The most frequently chosen emotional states are: interest and inspiration. The section "Discussion " contains the results obtained by other researchers. The author offers practical steps to popularize scientific activity at the university and introduce students to it. In conclusion, it is concluded that some university students have a superficial knowledge of research activities. Some students who would potentially like to start doing research don’t do it.

Increasing the adaptive resources of first-year students is especially important, because it makes it faster and easier to get involved in the learning process and start mastering professional skills. We have considered adaptation from the point of view of the meaningful sphere of person and ontological security. We used «Method of Research of Students Adaptability in the Higher Educational Establishment» (T.D. Dubovitskaya, A.V. Krylova), «Personality life position» (PLP) (D.A. Leontiev), «Test of meaning-life orientations» (MLO) (D.A. Leontiev), psychometric method «Ontological security» (OS(PM)) (N.V. Kopteva). Significant positive correlations were found between general meaningfulness of life, general ontological security and level of adaptability. The most significant medium strength correlations with the scale «Adaptation to the study group» were obtained with the following scales: «Process of life» of the MLO, «Harmony with Life» of the PLP, «Vital contacts with the world» of the OS(PM). For the scale «Adaptation to the educational activity» medium strength significant correlations were obtained with the scales: «Purpose in life» and «Locus of control - I» of the MLO. In the discussion of the results we indicate the consistency of our results with the available results. It confirms the importance of using meaningful education methods.