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This paper deals with the topic of selected social determinants and their influence on the choice of leisure-time activities. Our intention is to present the results of own research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. One of its main objectives was to find out whether the selected social determinants (gender, age, education, fathers and mothers education and employment status) have the influence on choice of leisure-time activities within different types of social groups. For this ...

This article sets forth the problem of attitudes towards women in connection with their ethno-religious characteristics of the processing of their appearance (for example, hidjab (Islamic head-cover)) and sex and age of respondents. Research design. The object of the study were 794 people (350 male; 444 female), aged 18 to 40 years (mean age 27 years), residents of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Methods. The study used the author's questionnaire, which consisted of stimulus material (2 sets of photos of 5 girls; in one ca...

The concept of the dynamic nature of the system of a person's relations (Myasishchev, 1995) [1] and the social-psychological approach to appearance, its assessments and self-assessments (Labunskaya, Drozdova, 2017) [2] served as the methodological preconditions of the study. The goal of the study was studying the age-related dynamics of a person's assessment of the components of his/her appearance and its integral characteristics. Methods of the study: 1) V. Schutz Interpersonal Relations Questionnaire [3]; 2) met...

“Perceived age” is the result of perception of a person's appearance representing the age of a perception object ascribed by a perception subject. Explosion of interest to the analysis of the factors of a person's perceived age is observed in the modern science, because the perceived age of a person is directly related to the biological age of such a person and is an indicator of mortality risk [1, 2]. Researchers studied genetic, ecological, and medical-and-esthetic factors effecting the perceived age of a person...