N. Tskhvedadze. - The Zone of Attitude Acceptance and its Role in Inter-ethnic Interactions.. - Proceedings of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Series of Psychology. - Tbilisi. - 2003, № 1. - 133 p. – In Georgian.
There is made an attempt in the work, which characterizes the attitude of Georgians towards various nations and ethnic groups living in Georgia in the light of general psychological theory. Relating to this there are considered the determining role and significance of defined characteristics of dispositional attitude exposing such forms of inter-personal interaction as a conflict and co-operation; there are discussed problems of theoretical and practical character and in order to resolve them there can be used an opening of natural phenomenon in this direction.
The analysis of experimental data show that a zone of attitude acceptance, and particularly its extent is one of the important factor not only to define character revealing in the international relations of tendencies in terms of conflict-cooperation, but also in studying the systems of international attitude, it makes clear peculiarities of organization and places the zone of attitude in general outline of data system. Knowledge of these peculiarities, from one side, gives an opportunity for diagnosis and measuring of conflict level, but from another side – promotes selection of individual approaches in peacemaking process, which in its own turn appears the condition of effective planning to given process.