Various approaches to the study of loneliness in psychology are discussed, among which the cultural-historical approach is highlighted. The concepts of loneliness and solitude are correlated. The forms of representation of the problem of loneliness in the works of F. M. Dostoevsky, T. Mann, A. P. Chekhov, M. Vrubel, I. Levitan are analyzed.

The article presents a study of the development of professionally important personal qualities of undergraduate students of the psychological and pedagogical direction in the conditions of emergency remote teaching (ERT). A study with the participation of 140 master’s students (70 in 2018– 2019, 70 in 2020–2021) and using the Emotional Response Scale of A. Mehrabyan and N. Epstein, the test of communication skills of L. Mikhelson, methods of professional identity research (MIPI) and personal identity (MILES) L. B. Schneider confirmed the assumption that empathy develops intensively at the beginning of training, both in full-time and in distance learning, but the development of communicative competence is difficult compared to full-time training. In contrast to the conditions of full-time study, with emergency remote teaching, the status of diffuse professional identity is common for students of both courses, and the achieved professional identity is much less common than for full-time students. Among first-year students, the most common is the status of diffuse personal identity, among second-year students-the status of a moratorium. The limitations of the obtained conclusions are discussed and the prospects for further research are shown.

Engagement is considered as a state characterized by high motivation for the activities performed, active distribution of personal resources to perform tasks related to the work role, orientation towards the quality performance of one’s activities. Since engagement includes in its content the commitment of a person to his cause and his organization, two types of this state are analyzed: engagement in work (work engagement) and engagement in the organization (organizational engagement).

Ideas about the content of innovation potential and its structure are considered. Research works of the resource basis of the innovative potential of the individual and the innovative potential of the team in different organizational cultures are presented. It is shown that the innovative potential of the team has an indirect relationship with organizational commitment, and this relationship is mediated by the characteristics of the organizational culture. It is concluded that in organizations with an innovative organizational culture, conditions are created for the manifestation of organizational commitment as a desire to participate in organizational transformations, which stimulates the innovative potential of the team and the individual.

A theoretical analysis of organizational, cultural-institutional, and personal factors of innovative behavior was carried out. Personal factors are considered in detail, which include characteristics of motivation, individual tolerance to uncertainty and personal creativity, assertiveness, self-efficiency, optimism, and long-term goal setting. Authors had shown that the importance of personal factors that determine innovative behavior is determined by its types. It is noted that the multidisciplinary character of innovative personnel behaviour requires the integration of efforts of people with different abilities, the distribution of functions in accordance with the each person’s reflection of its team role, adequate for it types of innovative activity.

The article shows the relevance of research on the social intelligence of children and adolescents in inclusive education. In an empirical study involving 51 fourth graders from inclusive education classes, 57 from regular classes, 48 ninth graders from inclusive education classes and 53 from regular classes, J. Guilford’s subtests 2 and 3 of the social intelligence test were applied. It is shown that students of inclusive classes have lower indicators of the verbally mediated factor of social intelligence, responsible for a subtle analysis of the context of the social situation. The directions of further research on this problem are discussed.

The article discusses the possibilities and functions of laughter in overcoming such challenges of modern times as uncertainty, transitivity, complexity. The analysis of psychological, philosophical, and cultural concepts of the nature of the laughter is carried out. Examples of the image of the ambivalent nature of laughter in literature, drama and fine arts are considered.

The article presents the actual problem of studying the career self-determination of a proactive personality. The problem of proactive career building is revealed in modern scientific domestic and foreign studies through such basic psychological concepts as potential, strategy, orientation, skills. The personal and organizational determinants of the implementation of a proactive career are analyzed. In this study, the universal characteristics of career proactivity are highlighted, and it is also shown that the system-forming property of career activity in the VUC environment is proactivity as an integral property of personality. In the paradigm of the system approach, the authors proposed a proactive career model for the VC environment, which includes three main components: value-motivational, strategic and competence. The integral nature of proactivity ensures relationship between these components of the career activity system, penetrating and filling each of them with content.

The article presents a theoretical model that describes proactive behavior as the basis for increasing the structural and social resources for showing initiative. In this theoretical model, both work and personal resources are considered as predictors of proactive work behavior, which determines the productivity of an employee in an organization. At the same time, personal and work resources determine proactive behavior to no lesser extent than work requirements.

The paper analyses the concept of personal competency, determines core personal competencies as work efficiency factors in the context of different forms of employment in the digital era, and considers personal competencies improvement methods. The claim of a personal competencies improvement model development relevance for different types of employment is grounded.

A theoretical study of the socio-psychological resources of organizational loyalty as a multidimensional construct, which includes organizational conditions and personal capabilities of employees for building social ties in the organization, has been conducted. It is shown that certain types of organizational culture are set by different terminal and instrumental organizational values, which are considered as different organizational resources of loyalty.

The article compares the concepts of engineering and technical thinking, provides a brief overview of modern research on engineering thinking. The authors analyzed the new technology of teaching course design in the discipline “Machine parts” as an implementation of the principles of developmental learning in higher technical education. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the formation of cognitive strategies of engineering thinking and the internal position of a future engineer are analyzed, and prospects for further research are outlined.

The article proposes a new approach to the study of the educational situation of students with disabilities based on the ideas of the chronotope proposed by M. M. Bakhtin and developed in the works of V. P. Zinchenko. The chronotope is considered as a meaningful category denoting a temporal, spatial and value-semantic unity that determines the manifestations of personality in a specific situation. The main variants of the internal position of students with disabilities (“disabled person-student” and “student with disabilities”) and the conditions for the transformation of the chronotope of their educational situation, which becomes a prerequisite for creative changes in the internal position, are considered.