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Psychological well-being of students living in russia and azerbaijan, depending on their native language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Y. Zinchenko ,
L. Shaigerova ,
A. Dolgikh ,
O. Almazova  and
R. Shilko
Y. Zinchenko
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
L. Shaigerova*
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Dolgikh
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
O. Almazova
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
R. Shilko
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Since the post-Soviet space is distinguished by a wide ethnolinguistic diversity with Russian language being the basis of identity for a significant part of the population, the role of ethnolinguistic identity in psychological well-being needs deep analysis.

Objectives

The study explores the relationship between mental well-being and belonging to different ethnolinguistic categories in Russia and Azerbaijan.

Methods

The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (Tennant et al., 2007) was used as a measuring tool. The study involved 90 students, 45 participants from multilingual regions of Russia and 45 Russian-speaking students from Azerbaijan. Both samples included three categories of subjects: indicating Russian (1); one or more regional languages in the Russian sample or Azerbaijani in the sample from Baku (2); two native languages - Russian and one of regional languages or Russian and Azerbaijani (3) - as their native language.

Results

No significant differences were observed in the level of psychological well-being in both Russian (KW = 0.594; p = 0.743) and Azerbaijanian students (KW = 1.535; p = 0.464). However, the level of psychological well-being in Russian students from multilingual regions, who indicate the regional language as their native language, is significantly higher than in Azerbaijani students, whose native language is Russian (U = 55,000; p = 0.045).

Conclusions

The sociocultural context is reflected in mental well-being of the individual, depending on his native language and ethnocultural identity. The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 17-29-09167.

Keywords

native languagemental well-beingmultilingualism
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S468
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