ОСОБЛИВОСТІ СТРАТЕГІЇ АКУЛЬТУРАЦІЇ ТА СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНОЇ АДАПТАЦІЇ СТУДЕНТІВ-ПЕРЕСЕЛЕНЦІВ ЗІ СХОДУ УКРАЇНИ

Abstract

The article investigates the acculturation strategies chosen by Ukrainian Inner Displaced Persons (UIDPs) who were students from the uncontrolled territories of Eastern Ukraine within the longitudinal experiment (2015-2019 pp.). Among the acculturation strategies, we analyzed, first of all, integration and assimilation. The correlations among variables such as acculturation strategies and Ukrainian languages proficiency, psychological and social-cultural adaptation, psychological well-being, ambiguity (frustration) tolerance, anxiety and dominant acculturation attitudes of local students toward migrated ones were analyzed. The examined young people were living in the metropolis of Dnipro and the small town of Sievierodonetsk - suburb of Lugansk, which was previously a Ukrainian city and is at ORDLO’s territories currently. The results indicated differences in chosen acculturation strategies by UIDPs students depending on their places of residence (Dnipro metropolis or the small town) and on the types of their psychological adaptation. The direct correlations were found between intention to stay in Ukraine and the Ukrainian-language proficiency, psychological well-being, and vice versa, іndirect correlations were determined between intention to stay in Ukraine and ambiguity (frustration) tolerance and anxiety. Dominant acculturation attitudes of local students from both cities toward migrated young people included expected high assimilative potential which had an indirect negative effect on UIDPs students’ psychological well-being. The problem of the Eastern Ukraine students’ acculturation can be solved in the perspective if theoretical, empirical models and political decisions are coordinated, because chosen acculturation strategies and psychological well-being of such students and their efficient adaptation depend on specific-helping, accompanying, or indulging-neutral support of forced migrants from Eastern Ukraine.