Social and personal resilience in Czech reactions to Russian attacks in Ukraine territory

0580011 - PSÚ 2024 RIV DE eng A - Abstract
Poláčková Šolcová, Iva - Klůzová Kráčmarová, Lucie
Social and personal resilience in Czech reactions to Russian attacks in Ukraine territory.
European Journal of Psychology Open. Roč. 82, Supplement 1 (2023), s. 394-394. ISSN 2673-8627
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : health * resilience * stress
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Social resilience, the resilience of a system, is the ability of a society to return to equilibrium after a disturbance. In our research, we measured subjective resilience and subjective social resilience in association with war and Russian attacks on Ukraine. Participants and tools: 214 Czech respondents – students – filled up an online questionnaire focused on subjective resilience (Brief resiliency scale) and subjective social resilience (Brief resiliency scale changed on social resilience e.g. My society tends to bounce back quickly after hard times) and other questionnaires (focused on e.g. worries, mood, active coping, time spent watching the war). We have also asked about thoughts and ideas connected to war presented on media and social networks. Results suggest that there is a very poor correlation between self-reported personal and social resilience. Participants mentioned that they were shocked especially at the beginning of the war or with news that Russians attacked the town or place of their significant others. In a month they shield themselves against fear, anger, sadness and crying, dreamless nights, anxiety, hopelessness, distress, and worries: the strength they found usually in inner resources (I am capable of somehow coping with it), via media detachment or shortening the time on media, in voluntary help to Ukrainians refugees or significant others in Ukraine. With every month of the war, respondents claimed, that they were more and more tired of war information, feelings of empty hands to stop the madness, stressed by the impact of disinformation on Czech society. They shifted their attention from the war outside of Czech borders to the informational war and disbelief in species, government, policy, or media in our society.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0348797