PANDEMIC IN THE MIRROR OF SCIENCE
Современное общество находится на стадии трансформаций, которые в первую очередь основаны на внедрении информационных технологий в нашу жизнь. Они затрагивают абсолютно все аспекты, но хотелось бы рассмотреть влияние информатизации на формирование отношения к здоровью и болезни. Важно понимать, что изучение отношения к здоровью и болезни интересовало ученых на протяжении десятилетий. В настоящее время информационные технологии проникли во все стороны нашей жизни, и, конечно же, затронули такой важный аспект, как отношение к болезни. Эпидемиологическая ситуация сложилась таким образом, что можно было проследить влияние информационных технологий на восприятие человеком угрозы заражения вирусной инфекцией с вероятным летальным исходом. В период самоизоляции, основным официальным источником информации для людей были СМИ. Социальные сети и мессенджеры также внесли значительный вклад в формирование картины мира в восприятии людей. Целью данного исследования было изучение восприятия человеком угрозы заражения вирусной инфекцией с вероятным летальным исходом в период ухудшения эпидемиологической ситуации.
В статье приведены данные исследования, проведенного в первый месяц карантинного периода на территории Российской Федерации. Выявлено, что часть населения посредством коммуникации сформировала представление о коронавирусной инфекции COVID-19 как о заболевании, требующем физической дистанции в социальной среде или полной изоляции. При этом треть респондентов не доверяют имеющейся информации, что влечет за собой переживание тревожной неуверенности, дестабилизации эмоционального и соматического состояния в целом.
Life has offered humanity a unique experiment of experience a real threat and an unprecedented reaction to in the form of self-isolation. Media communication has a crucial role in this situation. The research focuses on the analysis of the media sphere dynamics during COVID-19 pandemic on the example of popular local news website. Data on publication activity, views and comments were collected from January 22 to July 19.
An unexpected and paradoxical scene is observed. As the epidemiologic situation worsens, journalists write less about COVID-19 and users demonstrate less interest and emotions in this topic too. It was revealed that user reactions are mostly caused by messages about lockdown, bans and restrictive measures rather than on the epidemiologic reports and details. The article discusses two periods which are characterized by different behavior if users and journalists. At first, the unique uncertainty situation generates great interest and emotional response to information about coronavirus. So, users and authors are guided by news about pandemic from Europe and China. Later understanding of possible risks displaces interest in the topic and reduce the degree of emotions. Moscow context becomes a guide in perception of pandemic as a stressful situation. In none of these periods the local epidemiological situation didn`t play a crucial role in determining of the reaction of the media sphere.
Qualitative analysis of comments revealed high user aggression, especially during the first months of coronavirus pandemic. Also, three groups of commentators were identified which differ in their attitudes towards the problem of coronavirus.
FROM THE STANDPOINT OF A PHILOSOPHER
The article is concerned with philosophical and theological interpretation of the phenomenon of genocide of Jewish People in the days of the Second World War known as “Shoah”. The article presents comprehension of this phenomenon as the one possessing universal significance for the world history. The notion of Revelation is being interpreted in two ways: as a human message about the sense of Shoah, presented in testimonies of victims and survivors as well as a religious-philosophical way of conceptual comprehension of this message based on the idea of Revelation in Trinitarian theology. Testimony is interpreted from the point of ultimate theological value as a confessional testimony and as an actional one. Action is defined as a soteriological act committed with respect to Absolute Being. Absolute value rank of Shoah is set into direct correlation with the event of the Great Patriotic War as well as with separate intentions of Christological thought about the nature and genetic order of Theosis implication. The author is supported by the corpus of written works of Russian thinkers of the Silver Age, Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s philosophy, along with transactions of modern Russian, Israeli, American and European philosophers and theologists.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Basic ideas of socio-cognitive approach are considered. This approach explains the moral personality from the viewpoint of availability of cognitive schemas. The results of testing the experimental model of D. Narvaez, D. Lapsley, S. Hagele and B. Lasky on Russian sample are presented. Primary trait inference method was used to determine if people with availability of moral schemas were more likely to make spontaneous inferences about moral qualities than people with availability of other types of schemas. The obtained results of the study coincided with the results of D. Narvaez et al. in conclusion that availability of moral constructions affects the processing of social information. People with a greater availability of moral schemas were more likely to make spontaneous inferences about moral qualities than people more oriented on other cognitive schemas.
The article presents the results of an empirical study of moral and ethical factors of conflict behavior strategies. In the presence of numerous studies of the psychological determinants of behavior strategies in conflict, the question of the moral and ethical side of behavioral strategies remains open. The study used the questionnaire “Behavior in a Conflict Situation, TKI” (Thomas-Kilmann) adapted by N.V. Grishina, “Dark Dozen” adapted by T.V. Kornilova, “Ethical Positions Questionnaire” as adapted by A. A. Fedorov, I. V. Badiev. The personality traits of the Dark Triad (emotional- behavioral component) and D. Forsyth's concept of ethical positions (cognitive-evaluative component) are considered as moral and ethical factors of behavioral strategies in conflict. It is shown that the personality traits of the Dark Triad and ethical positions are independent phenomena. Each strategy of behavior in a conflict is associated with the severity of certain moral and ethical factors.
This article discusses the problem of predisposition to the psychosomatic type of response in healthy adolescents. After all, it is the specificity of emotional and personal characteristics and the peculiarities of body perception that can be a predictor of the development of somatic symptoms. The study involved 40 people, 12 of whom had no symptoms of psychosomatic diseases, and 28 had a tendency to have minor manifestations of psychosomatic diseases or to the presence of their predispositions. The study identified a certain specificity of emotional and personal characteristics predisposing to the onset of somatic symptoms in adolescents, and a relationship between certain indicators of personal characteristics, characteristics of body perception and a tendency to somatic symptoms among adolescents.
PSYCHOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS
The article presents the results of internal consistency and internal structure analysis on a sample
of 184 subjects of the four most widely used questionnaires of tolerance / intolerance to ambiguity: the Intolerance to Ambiguity Scale (IAS) by S. Badner, Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance Scale (MSTAT-I and MSTAT-II) D. McLane and the Tolerance-intolerance of ambiguity new questionnaire (TAN) by T. V. Kornilova. The IAS subscales showed low internal consistency, the Tolerance-intolerance of ambiguity new questionnaire scale showed satisfactory internal consistency and the MSTAT-I and MSTAT-II scales showed high internal consistency. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the five-factor model of MSTAT-I, the other models were not confirmed on our data. Exploratory factor analysis revealed unsatisfactory internal structure of the IAS, TAN, MSTAT-II. The results of the study are discussed.
ISSN 2658-6894 (Online)