YURIY
SAYENKO
RISKS and
FEARS of CHORNOBYL VICTIMS
Aim:
Using the metod of sociologic self-appraisals of different categories of
the suffered people, in comparison with the orientations of residents of
“clean” territories, to determine the level of risks, fears and social
feeling.
Table 1.
Risks
of disasters
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|
A
question in the questionnaire: “From what factor do you
fear to suffer most of all?” |
2nd zone |
3rd zone |
Re-settlers |
“Clean” |
|
1. |
Impoverishing
to a beggar state |
32 |
21 |
56 |
64 |
|
2. |
Breakdown
at the atomic power station |
31 |
14 |
44 |
67 |
|
3. |
Loss
of a job place |
26 |
20 |
41 |
34 |
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|
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|
4. |
Uncurable
heavy disease |
25 |
27 |
55 |
71 |
|
5. |
Aircraft
catastrophe |
0 |
0 |
3 |
7 |
|
6. |
Automobile
catastrophe |
0 |
0 |
7 |
15 |
|
7. |
Railway
catastraphe |
0 |
0 |
7 |
6 |
|
8. |
Accident
at a work place |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
9. |
Mushrooms
or other food products poisoning |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
10. |
It
is difficult to say |
52 |
62 |
19 |
10 |
|
|
Confidence
level |
0.48 |
0.38 |
0.81 |
0.90 |
Table
2.
Level
of risk of loss by people of some life factors in case when they remain to live
in
the 2nd and 3rd zones.
(Integral
assessment is measured on the 0-100 scale)
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2nd
zone |
3rd
zone |
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|
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Magnitude (A) |
Confidence 0<p<1 |
Magnitude (A) |
Confidence 0<p<1 |
|
1. |
Eating
of the contaminated food products |
72 |
0.76 |
65 |
0.68 |
|
2. |
Health
loss |
62 |
0.82 |
60 |
0.62 |
|
3. |
To
break children’s future |
26 |
0.67 |
23 |
0.42 |
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
4. |
To
find a new job place according to a
profession |
25 |
0.50 |
55 |
0.54 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5. |
Loss
of a job place |
21 |
0.57 |
22 |
0.56 |
|
6. |
To
suffer a material loss |
15 |
0.60 |
12 |
0.55 |
|
7. |
Loss
of relations with relatives and close persons |
7 |
0.95 |
5 |
0.90 |
|
8. |
Loss
of established house-keeping |
4 |
0.96 |
3 |
0.89 |
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
9. |
Loss
of native place of residence and landscapes |
3 |
0.96 |
4 |
0.90 |
|
10. |
Loss
of confidence in themselves |
3 |
0.91 |
3 |
0.85 |
Table 3.
Level
of risk of loss by people of some life factors in case when they go to new place
of residence.
(Integral
assessment is measured on the 0-100 scale)
|
|
|
2nd
zone |
3rd
zone |
||
|
|
|
Magnitude (A) |
Confidence 0<p<1 |
Magnitude (A) |
Confidence 0<p<1 |
|
1. |
Loss
of established house-keeping |
90 |
0.96 |
81 |
0.85 |
|
2. |
Loss
of native place of residence and landscapes |
86 |
0.89 |
86 |
0.66 |
|
3. |
Loss
of relations with relatives and close persons |
74 |
0.84 |
65 |
0.54 |
|
4. |
To
suffer a material loss |
71 |
0.56 |
60 |
0.64 |
|
5. |
Loss
of a job place |
57 |
0.86 |
57 |
0.77 |
|
6. |
To
find a new job place according to A
profession |
41 |
0.51 |
66 |
0.52 |
|
7. |
Eating
of the contaminated food products |
31 |
0.39 |
17 |
0.45 |
|
8. |
Loss
of confidence in themselves |
13 |
0.88 |
3 |
0.80 |
|
9. |
Health
Loss |
9 |
0.78 |
9 |
0.75 |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
10. |
To
break children’s future |
9 |
0.60 |
4 |
0.48 |
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|
|
|
|
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Table 4.
Level
of satisfaction by basic life parameters - social self-feeling.
Level
of satisfaction by life factors (0-100 scale), calculated by the scale:
“absolutely
unsatisfied” - 0, “low level of
satisfaction” - 20, “satisfied so-so” - 50, “significantly satisfied”
- 75, “fully satisfied” - 100)
Satisfaction
(0-100 scale)
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|
Spheres and parameters of social feeling |
2nd
zone n=300 |
3rd
zone n=300 |
Re-settlers n=300 |
“Clean” n=300 |
|
1. |
Health 1.1. Physical health 1.2. Psychic health 1.3. Medical services |
37 30 59 21 |
39 33 61 24 |
29 26 38 23 |
37 40 44 26 |
|
2. |
Family 2.1. Happiness and peace in a family |
82 82 |
83 83 |
52 52 |
65 65 |
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|
3. |
Well-being 3.1. Income and material condition 3.2. Food products 3.3. Lodging 3.4. Domestic things and consumer services |
46 19 52 68 43 |
52 18 62 75 54 |
38 22 38 56 36 |
42 25 43 60 38 |
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4. |
Culture
and spirituality 4.1. Level of services rendered by cultural
establishments 4.2. Observance of top humanistic rules and
values 4.3. Kindness, assistance and sympathy
of milieu |
48 32 28 84 |
51 38 35 81 |
32 22 20 54 |
35 29 21 52 |
|
5. |
Security
in all spheres of life 5.1. International security and integrity of the
state 5.2. Right to private property and protection of
it 5.3. Defendability from poverty and unemployment 5.4. Defendability from crimes |
31 47 46 17 15 |
33 55 45 16 17 |
21 23 36 13 12 |
21 27 33 13 13 |
|
6. |
Job
place according to profession and wish 6.1. A job place according to a profession ans a
wish 6.2. Labour remuneration |
21 24 18 |
27 33 19 |
22 24 15 |
26 31 20 |
|
7.
|
Education
and professional status 7.1. Accessibility of professional training 7.2. Educational and professional level 7.3. Level of political and economical knowledge 7.4. Level of law knowledge 7.5. Level of ecological knowledge |
43 40 47 53 33 42 |
45 38 50 47 41 51 |
29 25 37 30 26 25 |
29 33 42 29 23 20 |
|
8. |
Freedom
of the individula and speech 8.1. Information of situation in society 8.2 Proivision of rights and freedoms of the
individual 8.3. Information of environment condition |
55 61 56 59 |
61 68 55 61 |
31 38 28 28 |
31 39 26 28 |
|
9. |
Will
to live 9.1. Ability to set daily goals and reach them 9.2. Ability to adapt to new life conditions 9.3. Belief in improvement of situation |
53 56 52 51 |
60 61 65 53 |
42 48 53 25 |
43 58 48 23 |
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|
Index
of social feeling |
46 |
50 |
34 |
37 |
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