Veteran Image among Senior Grade Students with Various Degrees of Trust in the World, in Other People, and in Themselves

Abstract

The problem of understanding and forming the image of a veteran is relatively new for modern Ukrainian psychology, although the general interest of scientists in the processes of creating images in collective and individual consciousness has a long history. The purpose of the work: to determine the features of veteran’s image in high school students with varying degrees of trust in the world, in other people and in themselves. Research methods: questionnaire method (developed by us) to determine the attitude towards veterans; incomplete sentence method; semantic differential of Ch. Osgood (adaptation of S. Yanovska, P. Sevostyanov and R. Turenko); methodology "Trust / distrust of the individual in the world, in other people, in himself" (O. Savchenko); methods of statistical data processing: descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, method of comparative analysis for dependent samples (Wilcoxon test). Sample. The study involved 107 high school students from secondary schools in Kharkiv aged 15 to 17, including 56 girls and 51 boys. Conclusions. It was found that the attitude of the studied high school students towards veterans is ambivalent, with positive and negative assessments equally represented. At the same time, the attitude of high school students towards veterans is less positive than towards civilians. The level of trust in themselves, towards other people and towards the world was not associated with the characteristics of veterans image perception by high school students - therefore, the ideas of these individuals about veterans are relatively stable, socially conditioned and to a small extent depend on the individual psychological characteristics that determine the degree of trust inherent in a person.