Personal determinants of the attitude to war as a means of solving international conflicts

The paper discusses factors affecting general attitudes to war. 1427 Russian citizens were asked to complete an online version of a questionnaire which included scales of resistance, alienation, social attitudes to war. Structural equations were used to test the hypotheses. The findings have revealed that the lower the resistance, the higher is alienation from oneself, other people and society as a whole. A high level of alienation from self and others is linked to positive attitudes to war, a high level of alienation from society is more often linked to negative attitudes to war.