PSYCHOLOGICAL RELATIONS: HISTORY PROCESS AND THE CURRENT STATE OF THE RESEARCHES
The process theoretical ideas in domestic psychology of the person's psychological relations were analyzed. The emergence of the idea and the concept of "relationship" in logic, philosophy, biology and social sciences were considered. The first experience of using the category of "attitude" in psychological science (M.M. Troitsky, A. F. Lazursky) was traced. The development of the psychology relations concept in the Soviet period of Russian psychology was also analyzed. The views of domestic psychologists (V.M. Bekhterev, M.M. Basov, S. L. Rubinstein, B.F. Lomov, K.K. Platonov at al.) about the psychological relationship and the contribution of V.N. Myasishchev to the development of the psychological relations theory were set out. The current status of researches of the psychological relations was considered as a process of differentiation of scientific ideas about the subjects, objects and types of psychological relations. The experience of using the concept of "relations" in the development of the new research directions such as psychological phenomena of trust, responsibility, jealousy, subjective economic well-being, socio-psychological capital etc. were presented. It was concluded that to the present moment there are no generally accepted and complete theories of psychological relations and the prospects for the further researches of the psychological relations in social psychology have to concern with the investigation of their structure, functions and types.