Оптимізм сучасної української молоді у плагуванні майбутнього

Abstract

На теоретичному та емпіричному рівнях розглянуто способи планування молоддю майбутнього покоління та країни. Аргументовано, що планування майбутнього є природнім процесом для будь-якої людини, що надає почуття впевненості у завтрашньому дні. З метою вивчення особливостей бачення молоддю майбутнього поколiння та країни, способів планування перспективи в емпіричному дослідженні використано авторську методику бачення власного майбутнього. Отримані дані вказують на переважаючий оптимізм молодих людей стосовно майбутнього свого покоління та країни. lanning own future is a natural and engaging process for everyone and especially for young people. It helps them to bring stability and life confidence. This article describes how young people approach planning future of their generation and country by using new methodology developed by this article authors. This methodology was based on the theoretical findings of professor Weinstein (1999) bout unrealistic optimism of people. The idea behind it is that people tend to put higher than average probability on positive event in their future rather than negative events. It provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the concern. Main result is that people tend to put higher than average probability on positive event in their future rather than negative events. Events were associated with main areas of Young generations and country lives. Individuals were asked to evaluate them on a scale from 0 to 10 of being positive or negative with 0 – strictly negative and 10 – strictly positive. Additionally participants were asked to put high or low probability events tags on a scale from 0 to 10 of being probable or improbable with 0 – strictly improbable and 10 – strictly probable. Main result is that, young people engage more in preventing planning of their future rather than a promoting: more often marks low probability to negative events rather then high probability to positive events. As a result, positive events were evaluated with probability higher than average of realization and negative events were considered improbable (lower than average). Interesting additional result is that the participants were mostly certain in generation and country futures. Main results of the paper bring additional support to the hypothesis about over optimistic approach to future generation and country planning among young people.