Faith in victory as an indicator of national resilience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19525379 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yaroslav Burdin (0009-0009-4284-1565, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), Svіtlana Salnikova (0000-0001-6368-9480, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), Mykola Sydorov (0000-0002-5333-8393, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), Serhii Dembitskyi (0000-0002-7958-3557) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 171-184 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Theory Methods Marketing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1563-3713 • E-ISSN: 1563-4426 |
| Publisher | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15407/sociology2026.01.171 |
| OpenAlex | W7133334247 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
The aim of the article is (1) the theoretical substantiation of an approach to measuring national resilience through the prism of faith in victory and (2) the empirical analysis of social and psychological predictors of this phenomenon. Considering resilience as a multilevel concept conceptualized at the individual, community, and national levels, the authors emphasize the growing importance of macro-processes of resilience and the significance of its psychosocial components as mechanisms for maintaining collective functionality under conditions of war. Based on the dataset of the sociological monitoring “Ukrainian Society” (2023), various regression model variations were constructed, in which faith in victory is the dependent variable, while the set of predictors is grouped into blocks: war experience, civic identity, institutional/personal trust, social optimism and information environment, civic participation, values; additionally, social status, education, and type of settlement were introduced into the model. It was found that psychological resources (cognitive-motivational expectation) and identification resources (collective belonging) make the greatest contribution to sustaining faith in victory; they are complemented by values and civic participation; experience has unstable effects, so the decisive factors turn out to be the interpretive frameworks (optimism, values, identity) through which people make sense of this experience. Thus, regression analysis confirms that faith in victory is a valid indicator of national resilience during wartime, determined primarily by social optimism, civic identity, the value priority of statehood, institutional trust, and civic participation. Structural characteristics (education, type of settlement) and wartime experience (volunteering, losses) play a secondary or mediated role, yielding to psychological and normative resources
Civic engagement · Faith · Multilevel model · Normative · Psychological resilience · Psychosocial · Victory · Economic Issues in Ukraine · Labor Market and Education · Resilience and Mental Health
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |