UrFU specialists will share their experience in studying well-being

Specialists of the Ural Federal University named after. B.N. Yeltsin (Ekaterinburg) with colleagues from the Kyrgyz National University. Zh. Balasagyn will hold an International Conference «Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Human Well-Being».

The event will take place on August 8-11 in Bishkek with the support of Bishkek State University named after K. Karasaev, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University named after. B.N. Yeltsin and the Bukhara Institute of Psychology and Foreign Languages.

UrFU psychologists will share with foreign colleagues their experience in studying public well-being and determining conditions for comfortable living; will conduct master classes and round tables. In particular, the development of resilience as a factor in preserving psychological well-being, linguistic security, and problems of human well-being in the digital educational environment will be discussed.

«Research on the psychological and sociocultural aspects of the well-being of modern man is a topical topic that has no geographical boundaries and no rigid disciplinary framework. This topic is one of the important areas of research at UrFU as part of the implementation of the program “Priority 2030”, – explains the co-organizer of the conference, director of the Ural Humanitarian Institute of UrFU Elvira Simanyuk. – An international and interdisciplinary approach is extremely important for the effective disclosure of topics. Studying the level of human resistance to modern challenges, ways to maintain the psychological health of different categories of the population, minimizing the negative impact of the digital environment –all this requires a coordinated approach of humanities scientists from different countries».

54 researchers from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Great Britain, Spain and Bulgaria will take part in the conference. They will look at aspects of well-being in different areas. For example, they will discuss the psychological well-being of students, measures to support students, factors of personal development, psychological well-being in old age, during a pandemic and in other stressful situations.