Relationship between the Concepts “Self-Awareness”, “Self-Consciousness”, “Samosoznaniye” and “Samopoznaniye”

The article presents a comparative description of the concepts «self-awareness», «self-consciousness», «samosoznaniye» and «samopoznaniye» in English and Russian psychological literature. Reflected the results of scientific papers on various components of "I", compared the approaches to study these phenomena, given the characteristic of methods of their empirical study. As the basic approaches to understanding the studied phenomenon’s we took works of Silvia P. J., Duval T. S. (A theory of objective self-awareness), Fenigstein A., Scheier M. F., Buss A. H. (Public and private self-consciousness: Assessment and theory), Rubinshteyn S.L. (Being and consciousness), Stolin V.V. (Self-awareness of personality), Сhesnokova I.I. (The problem of self-awareness in psychology). Established differences in understanding of these phenomena, which are considered to be contiguous. The author makes an attempt to interpret foreign terms and offers their translation. This work will be one of the steps towards the unification of psychological terms and theories.

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