Psychological Determinants of National and Cultural Identity of a Personality

The article considers national and cultural identity as a multi-level sociocultural formation, namely: a macro phenomenon that reflects the mentality and culture of the Ukrainian people in general and creates a national framework; a mesophenomenon that absorbs the peculiarities of the mentality of a certain region of Ukraine (regional identity) and a microphenomenon that is related to the national self-concept of an individual and involves identification with the nation, a sense of belonging to the Ukrainian people. It has been proven that national-cultural identity is a socio-personal construct that synthesizes socio-cultural and personal, that is, it reflects both the national and cultural experience of a certain people, which are factors of national unity, and also involves the identification of oneself with a certain nation, the perception of oneself and others as bearers of national qualities, a formed national self-concept of the individual. The structure of the national-cultural identity, which contains an axiological component based on the national idea, is characterized; cognitive component reflected in national intelligence; an emotional-sensual component based on feelings-values – “I-Ukrainian” – “We-Ukrainians”; a praxeological component related to the subjective activity of an individual in the practical implementation of the ideas of national and cultural identity.The interdisciplinary nature of national-cultural identity, in particular, its integration with basic psychological phenomena, has been established. The following groups of psychological determinants are singled out: 1) motivational and axiological, based on the motivational and value-meaning spheres of the individual; 2) praxeological, based on the subject sphere of the individual; 3) analytical, based on the reflective sphere of the individual.