Some trends of political tension among the Rostov’s region population at the end of 2011.
Abstract
Some trends of political tension among the Rostov’s region population at the end of 2011.
Research is executed on materials of the pilot questioning, conducted in late 2011 among 825 respondents, covering a large part of the socio-territorial groups of the Rostov region. Questionnaires contained two questions blocks intended for assessment cognitive and emotional components of level of a political tension. The revealed levels of economic and social security appeared below an average (about 1.7 on a five-point scale). It contributes to the formation of relative deprivation, and as a consequence leads to increased political tensions. These conclusions are supported by the calculated levels of emotional perception of the political order. The perception of a political order in Rostov region is negative and is at level - 0,3337 on a scale, normalized from -1 (complete rejection of an order) to +1 (complete acceptance). It’s revealed also nonlinear dependence of level of emotional perception and a relative deprivation.
Keywords: a political tension, semantic differential, factor analysis, the affective component, cognitive component, the descriptive statistics, questioning.