Oleg Nazarov
PhD., professor, professor of the department, National University of Civil Defense of Ukraine
ORCID 0000-0001-6205-9604
Anastasiia Senko
Psychologist of the fire and rescue department, Main department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv
ORCID 0009-0008-5405-4764
DOI - https://doi.org/10.52363/dcpp-2023.2.4
Keywords: professional activity; professional stress; stress resistance; stress factors in combat conditions.
The study of the features of stress resistance and the psychological factors of its formation among the employees of the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine are becoming especially relevant today, which is determined by the increase in the number and strength of stress factors that cause appropriate psychological and psychophysiological reactions to the factors affecting the conditions of professional activity during the war.
It is assumpted that the difference in external factors in the conditions of martial law, in which the SES employees from different regions of departure carry out their professional activities, determine the specifics of experiencing stress and the corresponding psychological factors of the formation of stress resistance in them.
An empirical study of the features of stress resistance and stress experienced by the SES employees in the conditions of martial law, which was conducted during 2022-2023 on the basis of two fire and rescue units of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv region, made it possible to claim that the firefighters and rescuers who were involved with liquidating the consequences of the shelling, extinguishing fires and performing rescue work in combat zones, are characterized by higher rates of experienced stress, as well as stress resistance and vitality as the ability to resist stress, restore oneself, one's mental, physical and emotional state after traumatic events.
The results of the study are implemented in the developed and tested social-psychological training program, which is aimed at the formation of structural components of stress resistance in fire-rescuers.
The effectiveness of the implemented training program has been confirmed by the repeated measurement of indicators of experiencing professional stress in the group studied, where too high indicators of experiencing stress have been found at the main stage of the experimental study. Re-examination of the results has shown a positive trend (statistical significance at the level of p≤0.001) in reducing indicators of the level of professional stress experienced by the SES employees.