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The main questions of this article were: are the different kinds of psychological violence the predictors of student’s statuses and which type of this influence we can find? The answer to these questions is an important symptom of intragroup psychological health because links between violence and statuses demonstrated relation’s quality. There were investigated such kinds of psychological violence as communicative intolerance, cynicism, aggression, hostility. We required finding the influence of these personality traits on intragroup relations and informal power, sociometric and referentometric student’s statuses. The sample consisted of 204 university psychology students of the first, the third and the fifth years. Data were collected via Sociometric (Moreno) and Referentometric (Chedrina) procedures, Power structure (Kondratiev), Questionnaire of Communicative Tolerance (Boyko) and the Cook – Medley hostility scale. According to the results of descriptive statistics the level of some investigated characteristics of psychological violence was within the mean significance. But the mean significance of communicative intolerance was more than the tendency to the communicative tolerance. All characteristics of psychological violence (intolerance, cynicism, aggression, hostility) had direct significant correlations between each other and these factors had inverse significant links with different types of statuses. Therefore we concluded that cynicism, aggression and hostility weren’t predictors of any student’s statuses in the educational group. At the same time aggression and hostility were mediators for communicative intolerance as statuses predictors lowering every kind of statuses.

The aim of the study was to investigate the correlation between world assumptions and different kinds of tolerance and ethnic identity to other people in psychology students. The data were collected on 97 students. Participants completed the questionnaires: World Assumptions Scale, The Tolerance Index, and Types of ethnic identity. The regression results showed that several world assumptions influence the tolerance index; some assumptions influence various types of ethnic identity. It was revealed that the increased tolerance index was associated with the rise of benevolence of the impersonal world and general meaningfulness of the world; with the decrease of justice. The normal identity is negatively determined by justice. The general assumptions as predictors of different types of ethnic tolerances were benevolence of the impersonal world and justice.