ISSN 2520-6265 (print)
ISSN 2520-6273 (online)
WEST: WAYS FOR SUCCESSFUL SOCIALIZATION OF STUDENTS DURING THE WAR IN UKRAINE
Authors:
І. V. Danyliuk, DSc. in Psychological Sciences, Professor,
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine,
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology,
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID: 0000-0002-6522-5994
Scopus ID: 57217043144
E-mail: danyliuk@knu.ua
O. I. Bogucharova, DSc. in Psychological Sciences, Professor,
Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs
ORCID: 0000-0001-5617-9175
E-mail: bogucharova@lduvs.onmicrosoft.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/upj.2025.1(23).4
Article Information
Issue: 1(23) 2025, pages: 69-100
Language: Ukrainian
Received: 01.02.2025
1st Revision: 11.02.2025
Accepted: 25.02.2025
The paper discusses the survey conducted on samples of youth from two historically dissimilar regions of Ukraine (eastern and western) during the Russian-Ukrainian war and as well as youth relocated from eastern to western. The investigated both regional disparities in Ukraine and similarities shared by these two regions are discussed in terms of different aspects of social identity (national, local at al.) and successfulness socialization. The tools applied have helped gather essential data. Some psychometric variables and t-student tests, F-test were used. The sample included 202 civil students and police cadets. Conclusions: 1) eastern and western Ukrainians showed more similarity than it was before war, taking into account the strengthening of the role of self-concept; but normative values of relocated people’s adaptation were lower than those of local people (traumatic war experiences); 2) youth’s social identity in both regions correlated positively with indicators of successful internal socialization and psychological adaptation; 3) social Self was statistically significant in relocants’ identity model; national, civic identities were significant in locals’ identity model; 4) the direct positive influence of regional, local (community) identities on psychological well-being, self-esteem and self-acceptance were universal for both regions, while the influence of national and civic identities on social well-being and life satisfaction were context specific; 5) the youth from both historically different socio-cultural contexts showed similarities in their socio-psychological characteristics and self-concept; but the problem of identity differences has remained for a long time a fundamental source of regional conflicts and friction between Ukrainians form East and West, so that further research is needed on the validity of convergence (homogeneity) scores of regional (“eastern-western”) identities.
Key words: youth, self-concept, socialization, social identity, sociocultural context, war, relocation, well-being.
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