Economic well-being and political attitudes as determinants of civil identity of Russians
- Authors: Fedotova V.A.1
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Affiliations:
- HSE
- Issue: No 5 (2024)
- Pages: 125-137
- Section: Rostrum of a Young Scientist
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/0869-0499/article/view/281129
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869049924050105
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/JUJXVO
- ID: 281129
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Abstract
Civil identity is an important component of the individual’s consciousness, on which the activities, communication, behavior and interaction of both specific people and social communities largely depend. The formation of civic identity occurs in the process of socialization under the influence of a number of factors. This study identifies and examines the influence of political and economic factors on the expression of the civic identity of Russians. The criteria for the political factor are attitude to power and political activity. The political factor was also measured using two questions regarding the benefits/harms of Crimea joining the Russian Federation and the respondents’ opinions about the sanctions of Western countries against Russia. Subjective economic well-being was used as an indicator of the economic factor. The study was carried out with the participation of 1014 respondents, among whom there were 527 female respondents and 487 male respondents. It was found that trust in government institutions has a positive effect on the expression of civic identity. It was revealed that low and average levels of satisfaction with the financial situation of the family can reduce the expression of civic identity, however, other factors of subjective economic well-being still have a positive effect on the expression of civic identity of Russians.
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Vera A. Fedotova
HSE
Author for correspondence.
Email: VAFedotova@hse.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2189-9791
Junior Research Fellow, senior lecturer at the Department of Management, Faculty of Socio-Economic and Computer Sciences
Russian Federation, PermReferences
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