Moral values and environmental responsibility for future generations: case study of Russia

V. Kankhva,Dina Kazantseva,Elena Tkach,Irina Sokolovskaya

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202125807028

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Annotation. Spiritual and moral values and motives are historically the basis of the mental matrix of the Russian citizen, determining the development and acting as a psychological coping mechanism in a crisis. In the modern world, it is spiritual values and motives that are being transformed. Mental protection of a personality based on the integrity of primal archetypes of the collective unconscious, creating mental traits and identity is interrupted, which leads to destructive changes, specifically, deprivation, alienation, deviance. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to identify the features of the transformation of spiritual and moral values of modern Russians. In the course of four sociological studies in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2019 in the regions of Russia, the values of schoolchildren (15-17 years), students (17-22 years), working youth (23-29 years) were studied. The research was based on personal, activity oriented, systemic and subjective approaches. It resulted in the consideration of the dynamics of personal values’ changes from 2007 to 2019, revealing the integrity of basic, spiritual, and moral values, which are fundamental for the personality formation of a Russian living in a particular historical and geographical environment.

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The sphere of values and motives is an intrapersonal central unit of a personality
The content-dynamic motive was influenced by values, determining the hierarchy and structure of the value system, the historical content, and the specific socio-economic conditions
In connection with the socio-economic changes in Russia that initiated the transformation of the spiritual and moral values since the beginning of the 1990s, the first stage included a theoretical analysis of the empirical studies of the ISI RAS, VCIOM, ROMIR, RSIS&NP (1992-2005) that generally describe trends in the development of attitudes, beliefs, and values of the Soviet and post-Soviet society

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The sphere of values and motives is an intrapersonal central unit of a personality. Determining the worldview motives of a person's activity focus awakens motivated activity toward personal and social goals. Values and motives as dynamic personal formations provide stable development of all mental mechanisms of a personality, self-fulfillment of its potential, adaptation, and socialization. Each nation has developed its hierarchical system of values, which is responsible for providing psychological coping mechanisms for regulating the activities of individuals and society, in the light of specific natural and climatic conditions of life. The content-dynamic motive was influenced by values, determining the hierarchy and structure of the value system, the historical content, and the specific socio-economic conditions. The spiritual world through culture entered the space of a person's life, created the integrity of the emotional and sensual, intellectual and pragmatist spheres, became an individual and personal experience, which regulates the behavior

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