Dynamics of sociо- and political and psychological characteristics of domestic youth during the Russian-Ukrainian war
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The relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient level of analysis of changes in several social and political-psychological characteristics of domestic youth that occurred during the large-scale Russian aggression in Ukraine.
The purpose of the article is to study the dynamics of indicators of subjective well-being, patriotism, and collective narcissism, as well as attitudes toward representatives of various ethnolinguistic communities among Ukrainian youth after the beginning of the large-scale Russian-Ukrainian war.
Method and methodology. One thousand three hundred seventy-two students from different regions of Ukraine (Center, North, South, West, East) were surveyed online. The study was conducted in three stages: in 2021, 2022 (before the beginning of the Russian invasion) and 2023. Respondents were offered: E. Dinner's subjective well-being scale (SWLS), collective narcissism scale (CNS), patriotism scale from I. Petrovska's "Civic Identity" questionnaire, E. Bogardus' social distance scale, and author's questionnaire.
Main results and conclusions. The large-scale war events significantly impacted the social, political, and psychological characteristics of the Ukrainian youth. In particular, indicators of subjective well-being decreased, patriotic attitudes increased, and the collective narcissism associated with them. The war stimulated the processes of out-group discrimination and in-group favoritism, which affected not only representatives of enemy countries but also fellow citizens belonging to ethnolinguistic minorities. The region of residence, gender, and language of communication mediate the expression of most of the above-described trends. One can consider all detected changes as statistically reliable.
Prospects for further research are related to the additional monitoring of the dynamics of social and psychological characteristics of young people and the peculiarities of their political consciousness (both during and after military operations). Studying the attitude to war, guidelines for social dominance, and several other political and psychological indicators can also be interesting.
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