Yana Rudenko
graduate student, Head of the group of psychological support and recovery in the military base A4165
ORCID 0000-0002-2815-7259
DOI - https://doi.org/10.52363/dcpp-2024.1.10
Keywords: mental state, psycho-emotional state, intuitive behavior, city residents, war, zone of active combat actions.
The war has changed the usual life of Ukrainians and the world as a whole. Already today, the war between Russia and Ukraine has led to a crisis, including psychological. Most of the population of Ukraine no longer worries about their mental health. They are more concerned about the physical and economic aspects of this issue. War reveals in people everything that was hidden or forgotten. All fears, all negative emotions and/or actions are directed against oneself and others. War allows people not to restrain themselves, to be aggressive, distrustful, to do what was previously beyond normal social behavior.
Of course, the psyche has its algorithm for maintaining negative states. Usually, this algorithm in many people is triggered subconsciously, intuitively, and automatically.
The purpose of this article is to highlight the first intuitive behavior of a person from the zone of active combat actions regarding the stabilization of their mental state in the early days of the war.
The research was conducted with residents of cities and settlements on the outskirts where active combat actions were taking place in the Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions. The group of respondents consisted of 103 individuals, male, aged 17 to 76 years. The research was conducted using a questionnaire in Google Forms.
The results we obtained indicate that in the first weeks of the war, the population of cities where active combat actions took place on the outskirts felt fear and bewilderment, anger, rage, and despair.
To stabilize their psycho-emotional state, the population from the zone of active combat actions mostly chose intuitive behavior of an active type: training and sports; active communication, immersion in work, walks, etc. Less typical forms of stabilization behavior included seeking help from a psychologist, meditation, a tendency to distance oneself from everything that is happening, etc.