Ukrainian value context for identifying the perpetrators of corruption

- Васютинський, В.О. (orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-4550) (2021) Ukrainian value context for identifying the perpetrators of corruption Проблеми політичної психології, 10 (24). pp. 54-70. ISSN 2411-1449

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Abstract

Relevance. Psychological research on corruption focuses on its personal and interpersonal aspects. The value nature of corruption as a social phenomenon is less studied. The task of psychology should be to establish appropriate social and psychological dependencies. The purpose of the study is to highlight and interpret the results of massive psycho-semantic study of value aspects of the search for perpetrators of corruption. Methodology. The research was conducted within the framework of psychosemantic monitoring of mass political consciousness. Using the method «face-toface»,1199 respondents were interviewed in the all-Ukrainian sample (except for the occupied Crimea and part of Donbas). The question about the probable perpetrators of corruption was correlated with 52 statements concerning different circumstances of the respondents’ socio-political and personal life. Factor and comparative analysis were used. Results. The respondents who defended pro-Ukrainian values were more active in blaming Ukrainian citizens than Zelenskyi’s or Poroshenko’s governments. On the contrary, the pro-Russian people were more likely to blame Poroshenko’s government than Zelenskyi’s one or Ukrainian citizens. They also blamed the former Ukrainian authorities or avoided blaming the perpetrators. The reformist respondents blamed Ukrainian citizens more than Zelenskyi’s or Poroshenko’s government. Instead, those in anti-reform positions accused all Ukrainian authorities more than Ukrainian citizens. The respondents who were inclined to protest blamed Zelenskyi’s government more clearly than Ukrainian citizens. The respondents with the internal locus of control were more active in accusing Poroshenko’s government than Zelenskyi’s one or citizens of Ukraine. Blaming from the people who had the external locus was converse. Conclusions. The value context of the search for perpetrators of corruption in Ukraine is due to the division according to pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian values, reformist and anti-reformist attitudes, the level of protest sentiments, and the locus of control of behavior. The respondents’ commitment to certain worldview values determines the direction of their assessments of the agents of public and political life. An important factor in such assessments is the power-oligarchic context. It can be noticed the respondents’ attempts, which look like defensive self-justification, to oppose themselves and ordinary citizens in general to other agents of probable corruption. Prospects for research may be to identify the reasons for citizens’ excessive focus on value prejudices and to develop means to encourage them to more constructive ways of solving problems of corruption.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	УДК 316.65. Літературний редактор Т. А. Кузьменко. Рекомендовано до друку вченою радою Інституту соціальної та політичної психології НАПН України (протокол № 15/21 від 09.12.2021 р.). Адреса редакції: 04070, м. Київ, вул. Андріївська, 15. © Асоціація політичних психологів України, 2021; © Інститут соціальної та політичної психології НАПН України, 2021.
Keywords:	Attitude to corruption; perpetrators of corruption; assessment of authorities; defensive self-justification; political values; reformist sentiment; protest sentiment; locus of control.
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 1 Philosophy. Psychology Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 304 Social questions. Social practice. Cultural practice. Way of life (Lebensweise) Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 308 Sociography. Descriptive studies of society (both qualitative and quantitative) Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 314/316 Society Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 32 Politics
Divisions:	The Institute of Social and Political Psychology > Laboratory for Mass and Community Psychology
Depositing User:	М.н.с. лабораторії соціальної психології особистості ІСПП НАПН України Володимир Вікторович Савінов
Date Deposited:	07 Dec 2022 11:03
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2022 11:03
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/733303

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