Socio-economic involvement as a factor of resilience of Ukrainians in conditions of protracted war
The article updates the essential aspects of the psychosocial level of involvement of members of Ukrainian society, which are specified under the conditions of a protracted war in Ukraine. Studying these psychosocial segments as one of the sources of social attitudes is important for researching and constructing such an integral latent feature as national resilience. One of its components is the resilience of a person and society, which is considered as a complex social construct consisting of adaptability, the nature of social mood, the ability to mobilise one’s efforts to counteract the negative impact of the challenges of social cataclysms at the social, psychosocial, mental levels. The author considers economic and social involvement to be an important component in the formation of the resilience of Ukrainians, as well as that of any society in general, which plays a dual role in the formation of resilience. Based on sociological and statistical data using correlation analysis of socio-economic involvement and integral characteristics of resilience, it has been partially confirmed that socio-economic involvement is a complex integral social construct. In the dialectic of interaction between external resources and internal personal resources, with a dual role of cause and effect, resilience represents a certain potential for the development of Ukrainians in conditions of social risks and disasters, subsequently rising their civic position and strengthening the level of national resistance and national resilience. The need to intensify employment and self-employment policies, social and civic involvement in various formats and methods of implementation is noted.
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