Features of attitudinal ambivalence of the local population to internally displaced people

Abstract

The author of the article emphasizes that ambivalence is a natural property of a person, which combines both positive and negative in the mutually exclusive opposing feelings, thoughts, actions to one object. The inability to combine both good and bad signs into a holistic assessment of one object is related to age,
experience, and a certain life situation. For example, in modern Ukrainian conditions, the attitude of the local population towards internally displaced people affects their adaptation to reality, finding work. The article shows that the individual attitudinal ambivalence is more intense than the group attitudinal ambivalence in the local population to internally displaced people, which may negatively affect communication, job finding. The revealed tendency can be explained by the longtime formation of group attitudinal ambivalence, while individual attitudinal ambivalence is directly influenced by real relationships. The respondents are not dominated
by the optimal levels of attitudinal ambivalence, which is a sign of mistrust, tension and conflict among the local Ukrainian population towards internally displaced people. The article reveals that local adults have more consentaneous ambivalent attitudes to internally displaced people than young people; the local men are more tolerant of both positive and negative in internally displaced people than women. Established positive features in adults and men among the local population can be explained by their more flexible system of combining mutually exclusive evaluations of internally displaced people, which allows them to communicate effectively and solve topical issues.