Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer

Articles

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018)

Exploring Sense of Community as a Predictor of Critical Consciousness Among Youth in Ukraine

Submitted
June 6, 2023
Published
2018-06-28

Abstract

This article furthers our knowledge of critical consciousness (i.e., perceived inequality, egalitarianism, sociopolitical action) by testing an expanded model of critical consciousness development that hypothesized relationality (i.e., sense of community) as a predictor of critical consciousness and exploring it in an understudied region (i.e., Ukraine). While our United States -based measures yielded factor structures that are not comparable to the United States, we found that sense of community is marginally significantly related to egalitarianism and perceived inequality, but not significantly related to sociopolitical action. We also found that women and Ukrainian speakers were more likely to experience sense of community and Ukrainian speakers were more likely to be involved in sociopolitical action. We discuss implications for research and theory.