Perception of Foreign and National Political Leaders in Russia
Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Mokhovaya st. 11/9, 125009 Moscow, Russia
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Behav. Sci. 2020, 10(6), 103; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10060103
Received: 7 May 2020
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Revised: 9 June 2020
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Accepted: 10 June 2020
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Published: 19 June 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue XVI European Congress of Psychology)
The present study aimed to determine the composition of factors that underlie the images of foreign and domestic political leaders among Russian youth and therefore play a major role in shaping social representations. The research was conducted within the theoretical and methodological framework of the psychosemantic approach, which seeks to reconstruct systems of meanings, both individual and collective, through the investigation of implicit as well as explicit categories of perception. The study comprised two stages, in which participants were administered a psychosemantic questionnaire to evaluate political leaders according to some professional and personal characteristics. The first part was conducted in 2015–2016 with a student sample (n = 147) using a set of political leaders from various countries. In the second part, carried out in 2017–2018, the participants (n = 200) also filled out a questionnaire, this time evaluating modern Russian leaders. A principal component analysis was performed on each of the data sets, revealing that two categories—namely, morality and professional characteristics—are present in both factor structures, whereas other factors are different. Several important theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Petrenko, V.; Mitina, O.; Papovyan, M. Perception of Foreign and National Political Leaders in Russia. Behav. Sci. 2020, 10, 103. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10060103
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Petrenko V, Mitina O, Papovyan M. Perception of Foreign and National Political Leaders in Russia. Behavioral Sciences. 2020; 10(6):103. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10060103
Chicago/Turabian StylePetrenko, Victor, Olga Mitina, and Marina Papovyan. 2020. "Perception of Foreign and National Political Leaders in Russia" Behavioral Sciences 10, no. 6: 103. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10060103
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