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Global, Macro, and Personal Impacts on Latvia: A Latent Structure of Perceived Control

2019; Czech Moravian Psychological Society; Volume: 13; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.29364/epsy.356

1802-8853

Aleksandrs Koļesovs, Aleksejs Ruža,

Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

The study explores a latent structure of perceived impacts on the country.Perceived controllability of the context shapes individual plans and forms resource for dealing with changes.The direct and indirect exposure to global challenges (e.g., terrorist attacks) can change individual views of the controllability of the context and lead to negative psychological consequences.On the basis of the analysis, a set of perceived impacts was included in the investigationimpacts on a person, people of Latvia, its political institutions, and global players and threatsas factors representing different levels of ecological systems.Six hundred forty-seven university students from Riga, Valmiera, and Daugavpils participated in the study.The Future of Country Questionnaire was modified and used for the assessment of perceived impacts on Latvia.Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses provided evidence for four main factors representing perceived impacts: personal control, political power, globalization, and global threats.The latter factor involved military tension and terrorism.Revealed links between control beliefs confirmed the interconnectedness of sub-and super-ordinated ecological systems.Cooperation with other people can facilitate the sense of controllability of the macro-societal context.