COMMUNITY IDENTITIES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE AS FACTORS OF SOCIAL COHESION
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v23.n4.4632Keywords:
Community Identity, Internally Displaced Persons, Psychological Resilience, Refugees, Social CohesionAbstract
The aim of this empirical study was to determine the features of community identities and psychological resilience as factors of social cohesion. Our empirical study was conducted during 2022–2025 with the following sample: 293 internally displaced persons (IDPs) aged 18 to 72; 549 refugee women aged 18 to 79 who received temporary protection in EU countries; and 724 local residents aged 18 to 83 who did not hold IDP or refugee status. We used the following empirical methods: Resilience Scale, “Civic Identity” Questionnaire, Questionnaire “Determining the characteristics of community identities and the social cohesion”. Positive correlations between community identities and the subjective assessments of the importance of the values of free will, justice, equality, responsibility, and security were found among IDPs and refugee women. The stronger the civic, European, and professional identities in IDP and refugee women, the more important they rated values such as free will, justice, responsibility, security, and equality. Positive correlations between the community identities and the psychological resilience were found in IDPs and refugee women. High levels of civic identity, European identity, understanding of IDPs, professional identity, psychological resilience, compassion of IDPs, local identity, compassion of refugees and understanding of refugees increased the social cohesion.
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