The emotional culture of the Arab people
The article presents the results of the research on the emotional culture of the Arab people. In the theoretical part of the paper the concepts «emotional culture» and «emotional culture» in their correlation are looked upon. It is emphasized that emotional culture is one of the types of psychological culture. It is the reflection of the emotional experience accumuted by the people in the course of its historical development. Emotional culture includes three structural components: cognitive, regulative-practical and moral. The psychological analysis of the Arabic dictionary was used as a method for studying emotional culture. As a result of the analysis, 576 emotional categories were allocated, which is 1,35% in relation to the total number of words. At the next stage of the research, the emotional categories were divided into two groups - positive and negative. The dominant experience in the emotional culture of Arabs is negative. It was established that emotional categories are represented by emotional phenomena (for example, joy, pride, anger, etc.), emotional actions (for example, to please, to be proud, to be angry, etc.), emotional properties and states (for example, joyful, proud, angry, etc.), emotional manner of action (joyfully, proudly, angrily, etc.). They were distributed as follows: emotional phenomena - 29,9%, emotional actions - 27,8%, emotional properties and conditions - 26,6%, emotionalmanner of action - 15,7%. The results of the analysis showed that the emotional experience of the Arab ethnos is rather complex and diverse. However, it would be incorrect to evaluate it from the perspective of quality.