Social-Psychological Satiety: Empirical Study of a New Phenomenon.

Tatiana Drobysheva,Ivan Larionov

doi:10.3390/bs9120138

Tatiana Drobysheva, Ivan Larionov

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https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9120138

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Abstract

This article is devoted to the development of a new phenomenon in the field of social psychology of the city—satiety with living conditions in a metropolis. The study involved 87 people aged 18–30 years. The aim of the study was to identify and analyze the expression of the satiety of young Moscovites with living conditions in the metropolis, and its dependence on the sources of experience of this state. It was shown that satiety as a state of the human psyche performs the function of a protective mechanism from an overabundance of various stimuli from the surrounding world. The satiety with living conditions in the metropolis is a complex state that is caused by a variety of phenomena of social life in the urban environment: Excessive communication, an abundance of information, overpopulation, forced informatization of the urban environment, high rate of life, etc. It was found that satiety with living conditions in a metropolis has different forms of expression, such as emotional experiences and behavioral reactions. The article outlines perspectives for further research on the phenomenon of satiety in living conditions in a megacity in the direction of types, factors, and mechanisms of satiety.

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The actuality of research of social-psychological satiety is due to the constant growth of urbanization processes worldwide [1]
Satiety with the living conditions appears as a complex psychological state, which is caused by the severity of events in urban environments—forced communication, overflow of information, forced informatization, high rate of life, etc
The correlations allowed us to formulate the following conclusions: The structure of social representation clearly shows that social-psychological satiety is connected with urban environment—both the core and periphery include different assessments about different attributes of modern cities

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The actuality of research of social-psychological satiety is due to the constant growth of urbanization processes worldwide [1]. Data show that the number of citizens is growing much faster than numbers of villagers: From 1950 to 2014, world urban population has increased 5.2 times, while rural population only 1.9 times [2]. Urban lifestyle and urban culture are increasingly spreading into rural areas of most countries of the world [3]. This process has an impact on the development of the economy, the formation of the population’s way of life, etc. The increase in urban population contributes to the growth rate, rhythm of life, and changes in the nature of communication processes [4,5].

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