0477849 - PSÚ 2018 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Klicperová-Baker, Martina - Košťál, Jaroslav
Post-communist democracy vs. totalitarianism: Contrasting patterns of need satisfaction and societal frustration.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Roč. 50, č. 2 (2017), s. 99-111. ISSN 0967-067X. E-ISSN 1873-6920
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA15-11062S
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) StrategieAV21/14
Program: StrategieAV
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : Totalitarianism * Post-communism * Frustration * Societal frustration * Democracy * Memory * Maslow * Hierarchy of needs
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impact factor: 0.722, year: 2017 ; AIS: 0.366, rok: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2017.05.002

Frustration/satisfaction under the post-Communist democracy and under the pre-1989 Communist authoritarianism were studied in the Czech Republic in 2008 using a nationwide sample of 1093 respondents and an original Societal Frustration inventory. The patterns of frustration were contrastingly opposite: The past was dominated by the memory of oppression, of curtailed self-actualization yet fulfilled basic needs. In contrast, current democracy allowed for free self-actualization but the intensity of the current frustrations has exceeded the past frustrating memories. Main current complaints included a) general insecurity, lack of fulfillment of basic needs, b) corruption, low political culture, decline of civility (rudeness, envy, and ethnic intolerance). The results and their discussion help to explain the psychology of Communism, post-Communism, transition, and democratic consolidation.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0274072