Mentality as a subject of research and development in the hybrid threats context

The article substantiates the relevance of the essence, content and structure of the mentality of the Ukrainian people, analyzes the different approaches of domestic and foreign authors to the essence, content components, structure of the mentality. The history of the formation of scientific research of world scientists is considered, the connection of mentality with archetype – storage of latent layers of human memory, which are a form of collective unconscious (suprapersonal-transpersonal beginning of the human psyche). Shown that culture, ethnic and social conditionality of the way of thinking, stereotypes of behavior, to identify those phenomena of social life that are often difficult to explain rationally. The author's understanding of mentality is offered: it is a stable system of internal conscious and subconscious sociocultural attitudes of human community formed throughout human history, which is formed and changed both under external influence of economic, political, social, cultural factors and through genetically determined human self-development or a large social group at the level of automatism. It is shown that the manifestation of the mentality of a particular ethnic group is the ethnomental mentality which contains the following basic elements: collective memory; social ideas, attitudes and relationships; collective emotions, feelings and moods that reinforce them; norms, values and ideals; ethno-national character and temperament; language; mental representations of culture style of thinking and social perception behavioral patterns; ethnic and national identity. The structure of mentality is considered, which contains the following components: a) socio-cultural component; b) psychological component at the level of social psychology ("national" and "social" nature) and at the level of individual psychology (specific manifestation of socio-psychological, national attitudes of each individual); c) the civilizational component, which is the intellectual support of civilization.