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 Nizdran O. METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS 
FOR RESEARCH OF MENTAL HEALTH AND 
SOCIAL CAPITAL BY THE PEOPLE WITH LOW 
ECONOMIC STATUS 

Nizdran O., phd student, laboratory of crowd and community psychology of Institute of Social and Political Psychology Ukrainian Academy of Pedagogic Sciences 

Abstract 
This article offers the program of the social psychological research of mental health and social capital by the people with low economic status. The conceptual field of social capital and mental health is defined in terms of the author’s research. Social capital is viewed as a systematic social psychological phenomenon having connections with mental health of a person; this phenomenon needs further studying. It is highlighted and actualized, that the research of social capital in the sphere of mental health has not only internal value on individual level, but can also help to solve certain important unsolved socio-political and socio-economic problems. It is demonstrated that the research of this problem consists in studying mental healthand its components: social satisfaction/frustration, self-acceptance, management environment, personal growth, positive relations with others, autonomy, competence; social capital on individual level, general trust to people and to human community in general, general level of tolerance, values as interiorized values of sociocultural groups, objective and subjective economic well-being,which define the economic status. Specific methods of researching interconnection between mental health and social capital by people with low socio-economic status are offered. It is specified that the perspectives of the study lie in determining the resource of social capital (as a complex of psychological relations) for mental health of a person, and in developing practical social psychological work in this sphere. It is offered to implement the above-mentioned program of social psychological work aimed at creating the conditions for activation of social capital of people with low economic status, especially into the academic surroundings.

Key words: economic status;  mental health;objective economic well-being;  social capital;  subjective economic well-being;  tolerancе;  trust;   values.

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