CHANGE OF THE VALUE SYSTEM OF VIETNAMESE STUDENTS IN RUSSIA: RESULTS OF AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Abstract

The paper examines the results of the empirical study of the dynamics of Vietnamese students‘ values in the initial period of studying inRussia. The longitudinal method was applied. In the first phase of the study respondents (n = 100) were students of the Training Faculty, with 4 months of living inRussia. In the second phase of the research they were students who had lived inRussiafor 1 year and 4 months. The main instruments of the study were the ―Values‘ orientations‖ questionnaire by M. Rokeach, supplemented by the inclusion of Vietnamese values, and the questionnaire for identifying the strategies of acculturation by D. Berry. The study found changes in the value system of Vietnamese students that happened within a year: specifically, ‗terminal values‘ became more individualistic while in ‗instrumental values‘ there was an increase in the values-means that are traditional for Vietnamese mentality. The study shows differences in values of female and male students, students that came from towns and villages, also, students with different acculturation strategies