Features of subjective assessment by young people of their knowledge of structural components of civic identity
- Authors: Zavarin A.N.1
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Affiliations:
- Lomonosov Northern Arctic Federal University
- Issue: Vol 22, No 4 (2025)
- Pages: 171-187
- Section: Developmental psychology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1991-8569/article/view/364972
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17673/vsgtu-pps.2025.4.12
- ID: 364972
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This paper examines the results of an empirical study of features of subjective assessment by young adults of their knowledge of three components of civic identity: ethnic, all-Russian, and universal human in early and late adolescence. The study participants were male youths and female youths of the early (15–18 years old) and late (19–23 years old) periods of adolescence. A review of theoretical and applied research on the peculiarities of the development of civic identity in adolescence has been conducted, and the levels of subjective assessment of one’s knowledge on three components of civic identity have been revealed: ethnic, national, and universal. The differences of these indicators among male youths and female youths in the early and late periods of adolescence are analyzed, considering gender specifics. It has been established that the vast majority of young people of both sexes and adolescence demonstrate a high level of subjective assessment of their ethnic, national and universal knowledge, and the revealed differences in the assessment of their knowledge in early and late adolescence in most parameters indicate that the main structures of the cognitive component of civic identity are most likely formed already in early adolescence. while further changes are more quantitative than qualitative in nature.
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Andrey N. Zavarin
Lomonosov Northern Arctic Federal University
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Email: andrezavv@yandeх.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0004-5870-231X
Postgraduate Student at the Department of Special Pedagogy and Psychology
Russian Federation, 17, Severnaya Dvina Embankment, Arkhangelsk, 163002References
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