Oleksandr Timchenko
Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor. National university of civil defence of Ukraine
ORCID 0000-0002-8733-8076
Serhii Myronets
Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor. Kyiv national university of trade and economics
ORCID 0000-0002-9185-3206
DOI https://doi.org/10.52363/dcpp-2021.2.5
Keywords: stress, occupational stress, stressors, rescuers of international humanitarian missions.
The article provides a comparative analysis of scientific views on the problem of occupational stress, substantiates the feasibility of studying occupational stress in specialists of international humanitarian missions and search and rescue operations due to differences and specific features of its impact on the psyche of rescuers. Stress factors of international humanitarian missions and search and rescue operations have been experimentally determined. It is proved that in all the variety of extreme situations of international humanitarian missions, the psyche and behavior of rescuers will be influenced by certain stress factors (situational-environmental, social, ethnocultural, socio-psychological, psychological).
The factor analysis provided an opportunity to identify forty leading stressors of international humanitarian missions and search and rescue operations, the set of which is inherent in the activities of members of the search and rescue team of heavy class involved in OSOCC OOH to participate in international humanitarian missions and rescue operations.
The selected stressors are a consortium of situational-environmental, social, ethnocultural, related and actually psychological stressors of international humanitarian missions and search and rescue operations. The study suggested that increasing the resilience of rescuers to the negative effects of occupational stress, along with his professional, psychological and special training, will contribute to a set of relevant competencies, namely: an international class rescuer must meet the requirements of rescue specialty and have general competencies to rescuers of the international class.