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Zawartość zarchiwizowana w dniu 2022-12-23

Fatalism and external locus of control: measuring incidence and effects on economic development and participation in the democratic process

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Basic characteristics of the social psychology of the peoples of the NIS have been found to be fatalism and the belief that it is chance and forces beyond personal control which bring about change in the world, rather than individual effort. This pilot research will begin the examination of the persistence and possible growth of such fatalism, together with the related sense of external control, across three NIS countries (Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus) and from two centres in Russia (Petersburg and Tver). The existence of fatalism and the lack of a strong sense of individual control have severe consequences for individual behaviour in the realms of health, economic development and participation in the democratic process. The research will attempt to identify factors having the greatest impact on beliefs in these domains in order to facilitate attempts at positive change.

There will be two main theoretical approaches: cultural theory and the social psychological concept of locus of control. Appropriate scales will be selected and/or developed and tested. Open-ended interviews will be used in addition to structured questionnaires. Representative samples controlled for social class, age and gender will be used in each nation studied. All the west European participants have experience of cross-cultural study and will collaborate with NIS colleagues in the development of the core of the study, which will comprise those measures common to all the national studies. In addition, each NIS partner will elaborate the study according to specific expertise and familiarity with the conditions obtaining in that country. Thus the work will be organised into four main phases: initial workshop and detailed planning; scale selection, translation and/or development; pilot field work; and analysis and writing of reports. The final report will consolidate the separate reports from the partners.

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University of Surrey
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GU2 5XH Guildford
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