Democratic Values in the Post-Communist Region: The Incidence of Traditionalists, Skeptics, Democrats, and Radicals

Klicperová‐Baker, Martina; Košťál, Jaroslav

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-72616-8_2

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“…More Lithuanians were exposed to trauma, specifically to interpersonal trauma, such as physical abuse in childhood or adulthood. These findings may indicate a still present post-Soviet mentality in the country that, on the interpersonal level, is characterized by disrespect, prejudice, distrust, envy, hatred, and rudeness (Klicperova-Baker & Kostal, 2018). Also, commitment-related identity statuses were more prevalent in Lithuania, while diffusion-related identity statuses, in line with previous research (Hatano & Sugimura, 2017), were more characteristic of Japanese students.…”

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“…Lithuania, a former Soviet Union country, has a history of political repressions and deeply entangled cultural trauma (Gailienė, 2019). Although several decades of political independence fostered the development of democratic values, like many other post-communist countries, Lithuania still exhibits signs of post-Soviet mentality that, at the institutional level, is characterized by the legitimation of immorality, ignorance, apathy, and lack of initiative (Klicperova-Baker & Kostal, 2018). This might be one of the reasons why the healthcare system in Lithuania still fails to identify and effectively treat post-traumatic stress (Kazlauskas et al, 2017).…”

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Exploring trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress in university students of different identity statuses in Lithuania and Japan

Truskauskaite,

Sugimura,

Abe

et al. 2024

Dev Psychopathol

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Emerging adulthood is the time when identity questions are addressed. It is also a time of excessive stress and risk for mental health problems. Different identity statuses relate to different mental health outcomes. Yet, little research has addressed how identity status is interlinked with trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress reactions, especially in multicultural contexts. The current study aimed to explore whether different traumatic experiences are related to the current identity status of university students aged between 18 and 29 years and investigate to what extent trauma-exposed emerging adults of different identity statuses report symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD). In total, 2237 university students from Lithuania (n = 791) and Japan (n = 1345) participated in the current study. Identity profiles were revealed by using the Latent Class Analysis approach. Lithuania and Japan were comparable in terms of identity profiles and structure of PTSD/CPTSD. Trauma-exposed emerging adults reported a higher probability of being in troubled diffusion identity status; students in achievement identity status had a lower probability of CPTSD and lower rates of symptoms of disturbances in self-organization. The diffused identity of emerging adults from Lithuania and Japan is associated with trauma exposure, and positive identity is linked with fewer CPTSD reactions.

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confidence: 99%

Exploring trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress in university students of different identity statuses in Lithuania and Japan

Truskauskaite,

Sugimura,

Abe

et al. 2024

Dev Psychopathol

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“…Compared to their Western counterparts, they also tend to have higher risk aversion in pursuing financial gain, higher risk-seeking in incurring financial loss (Schaewitz et al, 2022), show less willingness to share gains with others who loosed (Brosig-Koch et al, 2011), and are inclined to see others as noncooperative (Heineck & Süssmuth, 2013). They also prefer the satisfaction of economic interests at the expense of moral interests (Welsch, 2022; see also van Hoorn & Maseland, 2010), show less civic participation (Pop-Eleches & Tucker, 2012), are more antidemocratic and anticapitalistic (Pop-Eleches & Tucker, 2014), and show higher nondemocratic skepticism and passive indifference (Klicperová-Baker & Košťál, 2015, 2018; Vainshtein, 1994). Their experience of communist authoritarianism seems to have taught many to distrust, disobey, and become alienated from the government.…”

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Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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This interdisciplinary study examines the cross-cultural differences between the perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in three Central European countries and four independent samples (West Germany, East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia). A total of 2,752 participants completed a newly developed seven-item scale that inquired whether governmental regulations were perceived as fair, justified, and based on science and whether the government considered citizens’ needs and the interests of their country, etc. The analysis was done within the structural equation modeling framework. Scalar measurement invariance was successfully established between the studied countries, and a subsequent latent means comparison supported the hypothesis that German respondents would report higher legitimacy of the governmental antipandemic regulations than respondents from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Additionally, as expected, the participants from the new German Länder (former East Germany) also manifested a consistent tendency to view governmental regulations as less legitimate than their Western fellow citizens. The results are discussed in terms of normative factors (i.e., the qualities of the authority which adopted the antipandemic measures, the qualities of the procedure through which these measures were adopted, and the qualities of the measures themselves), psycho-socio-cultural factors (e.g., postcommunist syndrome), and the influence of demographic variables.

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“…With the growing rates of industry and economy, keeping up with larger European countries ( Lazutka et al, 2018 ), Lithuania is becoming increasingly WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic). However, the majority of current emerging adults’ parents were still raised under the Soviet regime and may still be affected by the post-soviet mentality, which in the interpersonal level might be characterized by prejudice or distrust ( Klicperova-Baker and Kostal, 2018 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Does Trauma Shape Identity? Exploring the Links Between Lifetime Trauma Exposure and Identity Status in Emerging Adulthood

Truskauskaitė‐Kunevičienė

Brailovskaia

Kamite

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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In emerging adulthood, coherent identity plays a protective role against the development of the disturbed psychosocial functioning and is seen as one of the defining characteristics of positive youth development. The factors that shape the identity are still understudied and little quantitative research has addressed, how trauma exposure is linked to emerging adults' identity. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate how exposure to traumatic experiences over the lifetime is associated with current identity status among emerging adults in an academic environment and to explore links between different types of traumatic experiences as well as the severity of exposure to trauma and identity statuses. The study sample consisted of 1,614 first-year undergraduate students from Lithuania with the age range of 18-29 years (M = 19.09, SD = 1.05, 68.28% female). The three distinct identity profiles were identified using the Latent Class Analysis, representing diffused, undifferentiated, and coherent identity statuses. The results provided no clear evidence of links between traumatic experiences and identity status for overall exposure and most types of traumatic events. However, our study concerns the potential importance of severe traumatic experiences, such as sexual trauma, on identity.

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Democratic Values in the Post-Communist Region: The Incidence of Traditionalists, Skeptics, Democrats, and Radicals

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Exploring trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress in university students of different identity statuses in Lithuania and Japan

Exploring trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress in university students of different identity statuses in Lithuania and Japan

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Does Trauma Shape Identity? Exploring the Links Between Lifetime Trauma Exposure and Identity Status in Emerging Adulthood

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