Hennadii Hrybeniuk - Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Psychology of Activity in Special Conditions. National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine.
ORCID 0000-0002-5053-8744
DOI - https://doi.org/10.52363/dcpp-2025.1.2
Keywords: gender expectations; value, conative components of gender expectations; traumatic experience of war; reliability of functioning actions; workload; personal reliability; subjective errors, tensions; unit; specialists in the security and defense sector.
The article reveals the features of gender expectations of women who are military personnel and police officers. The conditions of war change their attitude towards themselves, towards others, towards the cause. The value of life changes, there is a desire to fill life with meaning and relationships with others, there is a feeling of personal strength, a change in priorities, a desire for the spiritual in life. Positive changes occur in interaction with the conditions of daily loads. In which the development of the personality of a female military serviceman and police officer became different than it was before. In particular, the intention to be reliable in performing official duties in the unit is strengthened in self-awareness.
The process of identifying "reliability" took place through logical processing of information and theorizing. The directions for the performance of official duties of military personnel and police officers have been determined. They outline real activities and specific situations of intended actions. Everyday loads and actual tension in actions was distinguished. In the specific performance of job duties, reliability is viewed as a point on a scale with divisions. The extreme divisions on a scale are the meanings of "adaptability" or "maladaptation". The obtained values are behavioral manifestations of the reliability of actions as intended. Manifestations of tension in actions were considered as indicators of adaptation or maladaptation to actions.
The division of concepts into “personal”, “operational” and “emotional” tension was used. Each of the concepts has received its own designated psychological reality in the conceptual and operational models of "reliability." Necessary and sufficient indicators of reliability identification in performing actions as intended are justified.
The specifics of the reliability of female military personnel and female police officers are related to the workload and territorially distributed risks of war conditions. These are the factors of the quality of a woman's actions in the workplace, constant missile and drone attacks, everyday informational destructive loads on a woman's consciousness and self-awareness from the informational and psychological operations of the aggressor. The consequences of these threats are highlighted in indicators of the effectiveness and morale and psychological state of an individual military and police officer or the combat readiness of a unit.
The presented results of the work allow us to clarify certain interdependencies between the content of women's gender expectations and indicators of the reliability of their actions.