YURIY SAYENKO

 

 

RISKS and FEARS of CHORNOBYL VICTIMS

 

Aim:   Using the metod of sociologic self-appraisals of different categories of the suffered people, in comparison with the orientations of residents of “clean” territories, to determine the level of risks, fears and social feeling.

 

Table 1.                                  Risks of disasters

 

 

 

A question in the questionnaire:

“From what factor do you fear to suffer most of all?”

 

2nd zone

 

3rd zone

 

Re-settlers

 

“Clean”

 

 

1.

Impoverishing to a beggar state

 

32

21

56

64

2.

Breakdown at the atomic power station

 

31

14

44

67

3.

Loss of a job place

26

20

41

34

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.

Uncurable heavy disease

25

27

55

71

 

5.

Aircraft catastrophe

0

0

3

7

 

6.

Automobile catastrophe

0

0

7

15

 

7.

Railway catastraphe

0

0

7

6

 

8.

Accident at a work place

0

0

2

2

 

9.

Mushrooms or other food products poisoning

 

0

0

2

2

 

10.

It is difficult to say

52

62

19

10

 

 

Confidence level

0.48

0.38

0.81

0.90

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 2.

 

Level of risk of loss by people of some life factors in case when they remain to live

in the 2nd and 3rd zones.

 

(Integral assessment is measured on the 0-100 scale)

 

 

 

 

 

2nd zone

 

3rd zone

 

 

Magnitude

(A)

 

Confidence

0<p<1

Magnitude

(A)

 

Confidence

0<p<1

1.

Eating of the contaminated food products

 

72

0.76

65

0.68

2.

Health loss

 

62

0.82

60

0.62

3.

To break children’s future

26

0.67

23

0.42

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.

To find a new job place according to

a  profession

25

0.50

55

0.54

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.

Loss of a job place

21

0.57

22

0.56

 

6.

To suffer a material loss

 

15

0.60

12

0.55

7.

Loss of relations with relatives and close persons

 

7

0.95

5

0.90

8.

Loss of established house-keeping

4

0.96

3

0.89

.

 

 

 

 

 

9.

Loss of native place of residence and landscapes

 

3

0.96

4

0.90

10.

Loss of confidence in themselves

3

0.91

3

0.85

 

Table 3.

 

Level of risk of loss by people of some life factors in case when they go to new place of residence.

 

(Integral assessment is measured on the 0-100 scale)

 

 

 

 

2nd zone

 

3rd zone

 

 

Magnitude

(A)

 

Confidence

0<p<1

Magnitude

(A)

 

Confidence

0<p<1

1.

Loss of established house-keeping

90

0.96

81

0.85

 

2.

Loss of native place of residence and landscapes

 

86

0.89

86

0.66

3.

Loss of relations with relatives and close persons

 

74

0.84

65

0.54

4.

To suffer a material loss

 

71

0.56

60

0.64

5.

Loss of a job place

57

0.86

57

0.77

 

6.

To find a new job place according to

A  profession

 

41

0.51

66

0.52

7.

Eating of the contaminated food products

 

31

0.39

17

0.45

8.

Loss of confidence in themselves

13

0.88

3

0.80

 

9.

Health Loss

9

0.78

9

0.75

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.

To break children’s future

9

0.60