Value content of blaming socio-political subjects by citizens of Ukraine
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Abstract
Urgency. Corruption and war appear to be the main spheres of public life in modern Ukraine, where reasons and pretexts for political accusations are laid.
The article aims to study the connections between political accusations and value orientations.
Methodology. The article analyzes the data of psycho-semantic research of mass political consciousness on the basis of a survey of 1199 respondents from all regions of Ukraine. The questionnaire contained the statements about the value aspects of the respondents' socio-political and personal life, as well as the questions about the possible perpetrators of the war in Donbas and corruption.
Results. Oligarchs, the previous government led by Poroshenko, the current government led by Zelenskyi, and all citizens of Ukraine were recognized as the main domestic culprits. The psychological structure of the received assessments was reflected in the content of seven factors: "assessment of power", "attitudes to reforms", "confrontation of Ukrainian and Russian values", "locus of control", "desire for peace", "disagreement with the current situation", and "desire for simple solutions". In the blaming context, the oligarchs have been the most irritating object, and the locus of control was the most decisive psychological predictor in the propensity to blame. The oligarchs were more often blamed by the individuals with the external locus of control who were relatively more sympathetic to Zelenskyi's government, skeptical about the current development of society, negative about perceptions of the reforms, and prone to the simple decisions. Their antipodes blamed the citizens themselves, inclined to the pole of internality, disliked Zelenskyi and his government, less strongly opposed the undesirable consequences of the reforms, and did not seek the simple solutions. At the same time, the accusers of Poroshenko's government or Zelenskyi's one were more external and opposed Russian aggression, but Zelenskyi's opponents were more supportive of the reforms. On the other hand, the respondents who blamed both presidents were less negative about Russia's military aggression against Ukraine. Those who blamed the oligarchs or Poroshenko's government had more external locus of control, and those who blamed them both had more internal one. The respondents who had not decided on the accusations had a certain commitment to Zelenskyi's government, a desire for peace, but non-recognition of the simple decisions.
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