Daria Riutina
student of the second (master's level) social and psychological faculty, National university of civil defense of Ukraine
Yuliia Ilina
PhD in Biology, Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology of Activity in Special Conditions, National university of civil defense of Ukraine
ORCID 0000-0002-9987-7130
Nataliia Svitlychna
PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Pyrotechnics and Special Training, National university of civil defense of Ukraine
ORCID 0000-0001-7891-6295
DOI - https://doi.org/10.52363/dcpp-2024.1.4
Keywords: psychological resilience, coping strategies, cognitive flexibility, emotional stability, stages of military professionalization, reserve officers.
The article is devoted to the study of coping strategies of reserve officers at various stages of military professionalization. Candidates of the department of military training, who study in the first year, are at the stage of combined military training, which includes the assimilation of theoretical knowledge in the combined military disciplines. Graduates of the department go through the stage of primary professionalization, which is characterized by the beginning of official activity, the formation of an individual as an officer, a military specialist.
The current military-political situation in Ukraine is characterized by significant reforms in the spheres of security and defense of the country, in particular in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. New requirements are being put forward to the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the military organization and to the characterological indicators of the personality of the serviceman. An important condition for the effective performance of service and combat tasks is the psychological resilience of soldiers, which consists of three components: cognitive, emotional and behavioral. The main component of psychological resilience is coping strategies, which are a mechanism for counteracting the impact on the psyche of the stress factors of the combat environment in the process of service-combat activity.
The attention of the study is focused on the following coping strategies: confrontation, distancing, self-control, search for social support, acceptance of responsibility, avoidance, planned problem solving, and positive reappraisal. According to the results of the study, it was determined that applicants who undergo the stage of general military training more often prefer to use coping strategies of positive reevaluation and planned problem solving. Graduates who go through the stage of primary professionalization more often prefer to use coping strategies of planned problem solving, avoidance and distancing. Statistically significant differences in the coping strategies of avoiding and seeking social support at different stages of military professionalization were revealed. There is a statistically significant correlation between leading coping strategies of reserve officers and the level of their cognitive flexibility (including its parameters) and the level of their emotional stability-instability.
The results of the study should be taken into account in the educational process of military training departments and in the psychological support of officers called up from the reserve.