The first issue of 2026 of the journal «Psychological Science and Education» (No. 1, 2026) is dedicated to a wide range of relevant questions in developmental and educational psychology, focusing on psychological safety, well-being, and the effectiveness of modern educational practices.
The section «Developmental Psychology» opens with a study on preschoolers' communication, examining it as a potential risk factor for psychological safety within the kindergarten environment. A significant focus in this issue is dedicated to higher education: individual articles analyze the impact of chronic stress on students' well-being, the role of conscious self-regulation and optimism as resources, as well as questions related to personal readiness for employment among students with disabilities. The section also addresses topics such as the development of social creativity among youth, gender differences in the relationship between time perspective and professional self-determination, and the development of creative thinking in schoolchildren within the context of ethnomatematics. The block concludes with methodologically diverse works: a systematic review on the role of working memory in solving scientific problems and a search-based study employing a classification tree method to analyze the relationship between psychological well-being, internet use, and attitudes toward seeking help.
In the section « Educational Psychology», key topics include psychological well-being and academic success. The issue presents results from a large-scale nationwide study on the personal identity of contemporary adolescents, as well as an analysis of latent profiles revealing the relationship between well-being and academic performance among students in grades 5–11. Other articles are dedicated to motivational and volitional predictors of students' academic achievements, the development of models of pedagogical skills within the context of teachers’ emotional intelligence, and a systematic review of strategies for maintaining teachers' social and emotional competence.
The section «Discussions and Discourses» initiates a professional debate by proposing a universal algorithm for designing educational programs, based on the analysis of students’ requests.
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Valentina Sergeevna Masalova identified the characteristics of communication between modern preschoolers and their peers as a risk factor for the psychological safety of the kindergarten educational environment
Tatiana Gennadievna Fomina shared the results of a study on the resource role of conscious self-regulation and optimism in chronic stress and its impact on the psychological well-being of modern students
Anna Gennadievna Samokhvalova spoke about the development of social creativity of students in project activities
Olga Leonidovna Lekhanova presented the results of a study on personal readiness for employment among students with disabilities
Natalia Petrovna Shilova identified gender differences in the relationship between time perspective and professional self-determination in boys and girls
Suherman Suherman shared the results of a cross-sectional study of the development and features of creative thinking in ethnomathematics among secondary school students
Rif’atul Himmah presented a systematic review of the triangulation analysis of the relationship between working memory and cognitive abilities of students in solving scientific problems
Elrisfa Magarina and Rizal Kurniawan shared the results of a search study on the relationship between psychological well-being, Internet use, and attitudes toward seeking help using the classification tree method
Sergey Borisovich Malykh conducted an analysis of latent profiles of psychological well-being and educational success of students in grades 5-11:
Vladimir Nikolaevich Shlyapnikov identified motivational and volitional predictors of academic performance among university students
Valentina Stanislavovna Chernyavskaya spoke about the development of N.A. Aminov's model of pedagogical abilities in the context of mathematics teachers' understanding of students' emotions
Natalia Yurievna Safontseva presented a universal algorithm for designing educational programs based on the analysis of students' educational needs