Perception of Political Leaders in Modern School Students (A Psychosemantic Research)

Autor: Sobkin V.S., Mnatsakanyan М.А.
Jazyk: ruština
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Социальная психология и общество, Vol 6, Iss 4, Pp 41-59 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2221-1527
2311-7052
DOI: 10.17759/sps.2015060404
Popis: The paper presents results of an empirical study on the features of perception of political leaders in modern high school students. The data was collected in the beginning of 2014, when the political situation in Russia was unstable, mostly due to the effects of the events in Ukraine. The study involved 110 students of 10— 11 grades of Moscow schools (67 boys, 43 girls) aged from 15 to 18. A method of semantic differential was used: the subjects were asked to assess 29 political leaders, Russian as well as foreign, plus such categories as ‘myself’, ‘my ideal’, ‘ideal political leader’ and ‘antipathetic person’ according to 33 semantic characteristics (scales). As it is shown, the structure of the attitude to political leaders in late adolescents is built around three generalized semantic indicators: ‘intelligence, power’, ‘tolerance’ and ‘ambition’. The way that the adolescent subjects perceive political leaders of the Soviet Union and modern Russia suggests that there is an obvious decrease in the significance of positive characteristics related the moral qualities of the leader.
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