Оценка возможности взаимопонимания и сотрудничества поколений в постсоветской России (по данным РМЭЗ НИУ ВШЭ 1994–2020 гг.)

Abstract

. Intergenerational cooperation, understanding and willingness to tolerate the lifestyles and opinions of people from other generations, is critical to social cohesion. This paper uses the data from “Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE” (RLMS-HSE) for 1994–2020 to examine evolving attitudes about intergenerational cooperation and the factors influencing this evolution in post-soviet Russia. The RLMS-HSE data includes information on Russian citizens aged 14 years and older. As the data shows, positive attitudes towards intergenerational cooperation are widespread and fairly stable over the years. While younger generations are more open to dialog and cooperation in general, the elderly have become increasingly more tolerant towards younger people in recent years. Positive attitudes about intergenerational cooperation are associated with improved social well-being, rising levels of general life-satisfaction, happiness and trust, decreasing risk of social isolation. Marriage status, the number of children and their age has little impact on how strongly people believe that mutual understanding and cooperation between young people and older generations is an achievable goal. Nonetheless, strong family ties are associated with an increased tolerance towards other generations. The development of digital technologies has had little effect on intergenerational cooperation so far. Surprisingly, not all young Russians can be characterized as “digital natives”. There are sizeable groups of young people who differ slightly from older generations when it comes to their relationship with digital technologies.