Zubok, Ju.A. & Chankova, E.V. (2021). Youth in the First Wave of a Pandemic: Features of Attitudes Towards Health and New Coronavirus Infection. Social’naya politika i sociologiya [Social Policy and Sociology]. Vol. 20. No. 3. P. 51–59. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.17922 ... Zubok, Ju.A. & Chankova, E.V. (2021). Youth in the First Wave of a Pandemic: Features of Attitudes Towards Health and New Coronavirus Infection. Social’naya politika i sociologiya [Social Policy and Sociology]. Vol. 20. No. 3. P. 51–59. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.17922/2071-3665-2021-20-3-51-59ISSN 2071-3665DOI 10.17922/2071-3665-2021-20-3-51-59РИНЦ: https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=47425364Posted on site: 06.01.22Текст статьи/выпуска на сайте журнала URL: https://rgsu.net/netcat_files/multifile/5199/7/SP_3_2021_V_PEChAT_.pdf (дата обращения 06.01.2022)AbstractThe article is devoted to the study of the general and special in the attitude of young people to their health and the perception of the pandemic in the conditions of its first wave. The analysis is based on the results of a study conducted during the lockdown in June 2020. The study examines the understanding of the meaning of health and its meaning, behavioral attitudes and self-preservation practices of young people. Shown are gender differences in attitudes towards health and measures to protect it in the acute phase of a pandemic. The socio-cultural conditionality of the practices of selfpreserving behavior is revealed by their connection with attitudes towards individualism, solidarity, and paternalism. The semantic perception of instrumental values in women and men has a different degree of expression and different semantic content. Women showed less pragmatism and more anxiety, but more indifference to antiviral measures than men. The lack of readiness for extensive preventive measures and early diagnosis of the disease was found to be similar for both groups. The contradictions in the identified attitudes of the respondents the authors associate with the lack of communication between the authorities and the youth, as well as the weakness of cultural and educational work among young people. The results obtained correlate with the main differentiating features expressed in attitudes towards solidarity / individualism, paternalism / emancipation and an active life position, which indicates the relationship between life-meaning values and behavioral practices in the attitude of young people to health.