Illya Yagiyayev

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка · Faculty of Psychology

In a multinational study (61 countries; N =15,039), we examined how collective narcissists, both agentic (ACN) and communal (CCN), reacted cognitively (through endorsement of unfounded conspiracy and health beliefs) and behaviorally (via prevention, hoarding, and prosociality) to the pandemic. Higher ACN and CCN predicted greater endorsement of COV...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused considerable military casualties on both sides and widespread harm to Ukrainian civilians. While polls suggest that a slim majority of Russians endorse the invasion, the factors underpinning this support remain uncertain. We investigated factors associated with support for the war among Russians. In three...

As both the discipline of psychology and psychology postsecondary education are increasingly global in nature, there is a need for ways to communicate across countries and contexts to facilitate collaboration and mobility of programs, degrees, graduates, and faculty. As such, we believe that it is important that the American Psychological Associati...

A theoretical perspective on grandiose narcissism suggests four forms of it (sanctity, admiration, heroism, rivalry) and states that these forms conduce to different ways of thinking and acting. Guided by this perspective, we examined in a multinational and multicultural study (61 countries; N = 15,039) how narcissism forms are linked to cognitions...

В рамках цієї статті проаналізовано психологічні фактори, що впливають на прийняття рішення щодо вакцинації, зокрема в крос-культурному контексті, а також змодельовано процес прийняття рішення щодо вакцинації в контексті дії на нього різних груп чинників: соціально-психологічних, особистісних, культурних, ситуаційних, задля розробки ефективної інфо...

Вступ. Досліджено проблему хемофобії, тобто ірраціонального страху перед хімічними речовинами, яка є відносно новим явищем, що привертає все більше уваги в наукових колах. Цей страх може проявлятися у різних аспектах повсякденного життя, впливаючи на ставлення людей до харчових добавок, фармацевтичних препаратів і вакцин. Розуміння природи і масшта...

Conspiracy theories among the population of Ukraine are a significant problem, especially as we deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the events related to Russian military aggression. The complex socio-political landscape in Ukraine, shaped by its historical context and recent geopolitical tensions, could potentially contribute t...

Although different social crises may eventually favour undemocratic and authoritarian forms of governance, at some point, such anti-democratic practices require the support of a significant part of the population to be implemented. The present research investigates how and whether the COVID-19 pandemic may favour greater support for anti-democratic...

The current issues in Ukraine, such as declining vaccination rates, increasing belief in conspiracy theories, and rising levels of hostility, necessitate the use of effective tools for assessment. The Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (VCBS), Epistemic Beliefs Questionnaire, and Cook-Medley Cynical Hostility Scale (Ho) offer valuable instruments to...

Unfounded—conspiracy and health— beliefs about COVID-19 have accompanied the pandemic worldwide. Here, we examined cross-nationally the structure and correlates of these beliefs with an 8-item scale, using a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. We obtained a two-factor model of unfounded (conspiracy and health) beliefs with good internal struct...

B a c k g r o u n d . Health control and management are important processes, the relevance of which has increased after the COVID-19 pandemic. Health control is equally important for the population of Ukraine today. Various assessment methodologies are used to measure health control, and the MHLC is one of the most commonly used, and also showed hi...

SElf-report questionaires asking about the reasons and means of war, with distinction between morally restricted and morally unrestricted. Preliminary data.

It is crucial to understand why people comply with measures to contain viruses and their effects during pandemics. We provide evidence from 35 countries ( N total = 12,553) from 6 continents during the COVID-19 pandemic (between 2021 and 2022) obtained via cross-sectional surveys that the social perception of key protagonists on two basic dimension...

Most research on the development of personality traits like the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) focuses on local effects like parenting style or attachment, but people live in a larger society that may set the stage for any local effects. Here we paired nation-level data on the traits from 49 nations with several mi...

It is crucial to understand why people comply with measures to contain viruses and their effects during pandemics. We provide evidence from 35 countries (Ntotal = 12,553) from six continents during the COVID-19 pandemic that the social perception of key protagonists on two basic dimensions of social perception – warmth and competence – played a cru...

This article presents a short research report on the relationship between perceived antagonism in social relations measured using the Belief in a Zero-Sum Game (BZSG) scale, life satisfaction, and positive and negative affect. Given that individuals who believe that life is like a zero-sum game are likely to perceive their daily interactions with o...

The relevance of the topic is related to the psychosocial consequences of the COVID19 pandemic. The aim is to study the subjective well-being during the beginning of the pandemic and introduction of the quarantine measures and their connection to social media activity. The methods employed in the present study include various types of questionnaire...

The active use of social media can potentially jeopardize the quality of romantic relationships. The present study contributes to the existing research body investigating the connection between social media use and relationship satisfaction, by focusing on the users’ social media activity, their relationship visibility, relationship satisfaction an...

This study analyzes the range and content of Social Representations (SRs) about the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 geographical zones from 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia (N = 4430). Based on Social Representations Theory, as well as the psychosocial consequences of pandemics and crises, we evaluate the perceptions of severity and risks, the...

This study analyzes the range and content of Social Representations (SRs) about the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 geographical zones from 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia (N = 4430). Based on Social Representations Theory, as well as the psychosocial consequences of pandemics and crises, we evaluate the perceptions of severity and risks, the...

The relevance of the topic is related to the psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to study the subjective well-being during the beginning of the pandemic and introduction of the quarantine measures and their connection to social media activity. The methods employed in the present study include various types of questionnair...

Abstract Objectives: The Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) capture individual differences in aversive personality to complement work on other taxonomies, such as the Big Five traits. However, the literature on the Dark Triad traits relies mostly on samples from English-speaking (i.e., Westernized) countries. We bro...

Stereotypes are ideological and justify the existing social structure. Although stereotypes persist, they can change when the context changes. Communism’s rise in Eastern Europe and Asia in the 20th century provides a natural experiment examining social-structural effects on social class stereotypes. Nine samples from postcommunist countries (N = 2...

Sexual disgust is an emotion hypothesized to aid in mate selection, deterring individuals from selecting suboptimal mates or from engaging in risky sexual activities. Sexual disgust thresholds tend to be higher for men than women, and these differences are large and robust. Varying types of context-specific input might result in cross-cultural diff...

Culture is a fascinating phenomenon that touches upon every sphere of human activity. What is more, it is present in every aspect of human activity since culture defines the way people live, think and act. In any case, being such a complex phenomenon, it is still easy and interesting to perceive when it is presented in a variety of separate element...

Political action is one of the main methods of social change. Previous research has shown that readiness to participate in such actions is determined by an evaluation of the current situation. The question arises as to how stable beliefs influence such evaluations. In this study we have analyzed the link between such beliefs and readiness to partic...

Objective: The Mental Health Continuum – Short Form is a brief scale measuring positive human functioning. The study aimed to examine the factor structure and to explore the cross cultural utility of the MHC-SF using bifactor models and exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM). Method: Using multigroup confirmatory analysis (MGCFA) we exa...

Although some psychological studies of atheism take place, the empirical evidence available is limited and does not reveal the distinctions between atheists with different beliefs. The present research used both eudaimonic (C. Ryff's SPWB) and hedonic (E. Diener's SWLS, PANAS) measurements, and also The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) to examin...