Culture-specific mechanisms of maintaining life satisfaction among the indigenous population of the Russian Arctic
Our previous studies on the causal attributions of events occurring in the lives of Nenets teenagers from nomadic families have shown that, unlike non-indigenous teenagers of the same age from sedentary families, they do not exhibit self-serving attribution bias, i.e. the tendency to attribute more...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:7fde0c9f22c84b178a69bde4f9334667 2023-05-15T15:17:41+02:00 Culture-specific mechanisms of maintaining life satisfaction among the indigenous population of the Russian Arctic Istomin K.V. 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2019-45-2-154-165 https://doaj.org/article/7fde0c9f22c84b178a69bde4f9334667 RU rus Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RA http://www.ipdn.ru/va-en/_private/a45/enga45-3-4.htm https://doaj.org/toc/1811-7465 https://doaj.org/toc/2071-0437 doi:10.20874/2071-0437-2019-45-2-154-165 1811-7465 2071-0437 https://doaj.org/article/7fde0c9f22c84b178a69bde4f9334667 Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, Iss 2(45), Pp 154-165 (2019) attribution style cognitive style self-serving attribution bias Nenets depression alcoholism suicide Archaeology CC1-960 article 2019 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2019-45-2-154-165 2022-12-31T08:08:28Z Our previous studies on the causal attributions of events occurring in the lives of Nenets teenagers from nomadic families have shown that, unlike non-indigenous teenagers of the same age from sedentary families, they do not exhibit self-serving attribution bias, i.e. the tendency to attribute more internal, stable and global causes to positive events as compared to negative ones. Since, in accordance with the Learned Helplessness Theory, self-serving bias is a protective psychological mechanism allowing people to maintain a sense of optimism under stress, it has been concluded that the lack of this mechanism in the Nenets makes them less resistant to stress, which results in an increased likelihood of stress-induced depressive states. This could explain the high level of suicides and alcohol consumption among them. However, an additional analysis of the empirical data has shown this conclusion to be premature. It has been found that the lack of the self-serving bias is mainly due to the extremely low stability and globality of causal attributions for both positive and negative events. It can be assumed that the reason for this lies in the holistic cognitive style of the Nenets. Indeed, numerous studies have shown that people with holistic cognitive styles tend to attribute causes of events to immediate situations and situational factors, rather than to general principles and sustainable attributes of the objects and people involved. Since such causal attributions have a low stability and globality, they are less likely to induce helplessness as a result of experiencing a sequence of negative events. Furthermore, even if a sense of helplessness arises, it does not automatically lead to hopelessness, that is to the individual's expectation of negative events and of the absence of positive events in the future. People who attribute the causes of events to concrete situations can maintain optimistic expectations even while believing that they personally cannot prevent negative events or make positive events happen, ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic nenets Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII 2(45) 154 165 |
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Our previous studies on the causal attributions of events occurring in the lives of Nenets teenagers from nomadic families have shown that, unlike non-indigenous teenagers of the same age from sedentary families, they do not exhibit self-serving attribution bias, i.e. the tendency to attribute more internal, stable and global causes to positive events as compared to negative ones. Since, in accordance with the Learned Helplessness Theory, self-serving bias is a protective psychological mechanism allowing people to maintain a sense of optimism under stress, it has been concluded that the lack of this mechanism in the Nenets makes them less resistant to stress, which results in an increased likelihood of stress-induced depressive states. This could explain the high level of suicides and alcohol consumption among them. However, an additional analysis of the empirical data has shown this conclusion to be premature. It has been found that the lack of the self-serving bias is mainly due to the extremely low stability and globality of causal attributions for both positive and negative events. It can be assumed that the reason for this lies in the holistic cognitive style of the Nenets. Indeed, numerous studies have shown that people with holistic cognitive styles tend to attribute causes of events to immediate situations and situational factors, rather than to general principles and sustainable attributes of the objects and people involved. Since such causal attributions have a low stability and globality, they are less likely to induce helplessness as a result of experiencing a sequence of negative events. Furthermore, even if a sense of helplessness arises, it does not automatically lead to hopelessness, that is to the individual's expectation of negative events and of the absence of positive events in the future. People who attribute the causes of events to concrete situations can maintain optimistic expectations even while believing that they personally cannot prevent negative events or make positive events happen, ... |
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Culture-specific mechanisms of maintaining life satisfaction among the indigenous population of the Russian Arctic |
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Culture-specific mechanisms of maintaining life satisfaction among the indigenous population of the Russian Arctic |
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