I would appreciate any reasonable suggestions in the field of identity modeling under martial law.
As you might have heard, Ukrainians are experiencing rather severe conditions as the war presses ahead. Under the given circumstances, the object of interest rests on the changes the Ukrainian Identity bears. By creating an international team, we try to investigate the influence of stress on Identity Reconstruction, taking into account Self-Directedness, Social Factors, Stages of Identity Development, etc.
Please, feel free to reach out to me to thrash out the possible ways of wrestling with this issue.
It's an important topic. I am now working with an international team of economic psychologists who study a sense of fairness in the distribution of resources in the world and a sense of a person's involvement in society or distancing from it. We compare Ukrainians with samples from other countries. It could be a perspective on identity: more individual or more social. You can also search for recent works of Kuba Krys (2022), who studied Ukrainians in that optics. I would also suggest considering the concept of dignity. It is not explored enough yet, though very important in Ukrainian narratives. On the contrary, recent data showed that the patriotism of Ukrainians contributes to their PTSD development. So, it might be helpful to review publications on the mental health of Ukrainians in wartime first.
I offer one on my articles which addresses in part the levels of deconstruction of a collective of a peoples. I served in the US Military for four years in Vietnam and witnessed our deconstruction of the North Vietnamese. More citizens are killed than military combatants on both sides combined.
Rich
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