Научная статья «Уровень счастья людей с различной нравственной направленностью», опубликована на англ. языке.
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Nekhorosheva I. Level of Happiness in People with Different Moral Orientations // Social sciences. 2013. V.44. №3. P. 87-98. EDN: UETPBP
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291333023_Uroven_scasta_ludej_s_razlicnoj_nravstvennoj_napravlennostu_Happiness_level_in_people_with_different_moral_orientations
Level of Happiness in People with Different Moral Orientations 87
Level of Happiness
in People with Different Moral Orientations
Inna NEKHOROSHEVA
As indicated by empirical investigations and opinion polls, the moral state of the Russian society is steadily declining. Based on the studies of social representations about what a moral person is, which were conducted from the mid-1990s to 2007, Margarita Volovikova notes a tendency towards deterioration in “the criteria for choice of models of moral behavior.”1 While previously, a moral person was generally known as someone who consciously worked for the good of other people and society as a whole, today we witness cases where a person is described as morally irreproachable only because of merely having returned what was not his or her property to its rightful owner, that is, someone who did not act immorally despite having every opportunity to do so with impunity. According to a 2007 poll conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, 61% of respondents believed that the moral climate in society had changed for the worse in recent years. Over the last 10 to 15 years, the Russians have become more cynical (54% of respondents vs. 14%); less honest (66% vs. 9%), less friendly (63% vs. 11%) and less unselfish (67% vs. 8%).2 Quoting statistics from numerous investigations reaching as far as 2009 and proving the moral malaise of Russian society, Andrey Yurevich and Dmitry Ushakov came to this conclusion: “Thus, there is every reason to speak about a comprehensive and system-wide moral degradation of our society.”3
There are fewer and fewer people with high moral qualities as moral standards continue to decline in society. Some representatives of this small group admit that they find it increasingly difficult to live in a society where “the Russians survive, almost without any protest or moral resentment, amid the total corruption and all-embracing bribery that accompany them nearly at each step,”4 and that they feel a heavy psychological pressure. Constant dissatisfaction with life and a lower level of happiness in this group potentially most useful for society can lead to reduced creativity, psychosomatic disorders, and a drop in life expectancy. But we have too few empirical studies at present, which would
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This article was first published in Russian in Voprosy psikhologii, No. 3, 2013.