Crimean Youth in the First Wave of COVID-19: Health-Saving Strategies

Research Article
  • Vitaly V. Kovalev Institute of Sociology and Regional Studies, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation vitkovalev@yandex.ru
  • Alexander V. Dyatlov Institute of Sociology and Regional Studies, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation avdyatlov@sfedu.ru
  • Vladimir V. Uzunov Crimean Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Simferopol, Russian Federation vladimir.uzunov@mail.ru
How to Cite
Kovalev V.V., Dyatlov A.V., Uzunov V.V. Crimean Youth in the First Wave of COVID-19: Health-Saving Strategies. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2021. Vol. 11. No. 5. P. 144-157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2021.5.10

Abstract

Objective of the study is to identify the nature of the strategies for preserving the health of Crimean youth and the peculiarities of self-regulation of health-preserving behavior in the conditions of the first wave of the spread of COVID-19.   The methodological basis of the research is the sociocultural approach to the study of social self-regulation. It allows to substantiate the motivation of one or another type of behavior of young people in various conditions and spheres of life.   Research results. The study included three indicators – attitude to health, attitude to coronavirus infection, forms of self-regulation. According to the first indicator, three strategies for saving health are derived: maximum health anxiety, median health anxiety, indifference to health. The distribution of responses showed the priority importance of the first strategy for the majority, the second was slightly less relevant and the third was insignificant. The established hierarchy was formed due to the threats of coronavirus infection. This assumption was confirmed by the procedure of combining strategies of attitude to health and the perception of threats from COVID-19 as personally significant and real. The result of this relationship was the readiness of the Crimean youth to voluntarily and consciously accept two forms of self-regulation: self-isolation and social distancing.   Prospects of the study: in the future, we plan to investigate the forms of self-organization of young people who have already had COVID-19.
Keywords:
youth, Crimea, self-regulation, self-isolation, social distancing, coronavirus infection, health

Author Biographies

Vitaly V. Kovalev, Institute of Sociology and Regional Studies, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Sectoral and Applied Sociology
Alexander V. Dyatlov, Institute of Sociology and Regional Studies, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Economic Sociology and Regional Management
Vladimir V. Uzunov, Crimean Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Simferopol, Russian Federation
Doctor of Political Science, Associate Professor, Director

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Article

Received: 03.09.2021

Accepted: 01.12.2021

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Kovalev, V. V., Dyatlov, A. V., & Uzunov, V. V. (2021). Crimean Youth in the First Wave of COVID-19: Health-Saving Strategies. Humanities of the South of Russia, 11(5), 144-157. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2021.5.10
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SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ETHNICAL PROCESSES IN THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA