YURIY SAYENKO
NATALIA KHODOROVSKA
GROUPS OF VICTIMS
WITH
PARTICULAR LIFE ORIENTATIONS
INSTITUTE
OF SOCIOLOGY, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE
(12,
Shovkovychna Street, Kyiv 252021, Ukraine)
The
Emergency Situations Ministry of Ukraine
Aim: To investigate how some life
orientations are dependent upon how the suffered persons do feel socially.
Method: The comparative analysis of
the results of sociological poll of 1200 respondents in March 1977; residents of
the 2nd zone - 300 persons; resettlers - 300 persons (Kyiv and Zhytomyr
Regions), residents of "clean" region - 300 persons (Poltava Region).
Results: Social life orientations
depend on the level of social psychic self-appraisal of the suffered persons,
their age, education level and the other factors. The suffered persons form a
model of self-life-saving, self-rehabilitation and self-defence of their own way
of life.
Only
121 (10%) persons out of 1200 polled are agree to become the liquidators in
case of a new disaster. Half
of them, i.e. 60 persons are the resttlers, the others from the 2nd and 3rd
zones and the "clean" region in each 20 persons respectively.
The
persons who have agreed to become the liquidators included: 1) mainly the
young people; mainly the men; 3) feeling better psychologically and possessing
of the more sound physical health; 4) having the higher adaptivity to the new
conditions.
In
the pessimistic mood are the suffered persons having such self-appraisals: 1)
a weak physical health; 2) a very low level of feeling psychically; 3) a low
professional level; 4) a very low level of satisfaction with a job; 5) a an
inability to set goals and reach them; 6) an inability to adapt to a life; 7)
practically a full absence of belief in the future.
The
greatest portion of "pessimists" is among the resettlers (55% of
persons of this category).