Lifestyles of People That Live in the Chernobyl Zone of Nuclear Pollution. Vitaly G. Panok, Ph.D., Kostuk Institute of Psychology, Pankivska st. 2, Kyiv, Ukraine, telephone (380 44) 244 2763, e-mail stasiv.sm@pg.com
Lifestyle could be viewed as an integrative indicator of personality adaptation to the harmful conditions of natural environment. Studying lifestyles of people living in zones with different severity of nuclear pollution makes it possible to understand the reasons underlying social risks and develop strategies for coping with them.
Our study was conducted during 1990-1998. All over this time we paid particular attention to such indicators of copying as health-worry, social interactions, life-attitudes, prevailing moods and others.
The results of the study showed that the most palpable influence of Chernobyl catastrophe is seen in cases when people are living in severely polluted areas. This influence could also be seen in cases when people get serious compensation for living in such polluted zones.
The factor of radiation is consciously initiated by the means of ecopsychological attitudes though there is no simple relation between determinants and results. There are also a number of other factors which need to be considered in order to reach more or less adequate understanding.
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