Identity as a factor of personal geopolitical consciousness

Abstract

The connection of different forms of personality’s identity (social, spatial, ethnic and political) with the features of its geopolitical consciousness, that is refl ection forms of events and phenomena of “political world” through the prism of “geographical world”, is considered in the paper. The results of the author’s empirical research of geopolitical representations among Ukrainian students with different levels of ethnic and political identity, including the specifi c features of geopolitical images of Ukraine, its Western and Eastern regions, are presented and analyzed. Overall, the results show the moderate impact of ethnic and political identity on the geopolitical ideas of youth. The author explains this by the fact that most of them are stereotyped social representations.