FEATURES OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE OF MILITARY PERSONNEL DURING THE SIX MONTHS OF ASSIGNMENTS IN THE AREA OF ATO

Abstract

Challenge problem. More efficient scientific and psychological support for military-professional work of service members can become an important component ensuring proper job execution by the service members at the anti- terrorism operation (ATO) area, as well as their mental and physical health preservation. Analysis of recent researches and publications. Service members’ participation in military operations is accompanied by numerous traumatic situations. This naturally leads to a number of negative states (N. A. Agaev, O. M. Kokun, N. S. Lozinska, M. I. Mushkevich, I. O. Pishlo, O. V. Shelestova). Accordingly, there is a need to determine peculiarities and factors of service members’ psychophysiological state dynamics at different time periods of their official job execution at the ATO area. The article purpose is to present the research results describing the peculiarities of service members’ psychophysiological state dynamics during the six months of their job execution at the ATO area. Presentation of the main material. The four series of studies have allowed us to reveal the peculiarities of the dynamics of psychophysiological state indicators for service members; the psychophysiological state changes occur as a result of combat task execution at the ATO area. The regularities of service members’ state changes depending on their previous experience of task execution at the ATO area have been revealed. Conclusions and perspectives of further research. In general, there was a stable or positive dynamics of the investigated service members’ psychophysiological states during the six months of their stay in the ATO area for the overwhelming majority of the indicators of the used psychological diagnostic techniques. At the same time, there is a fundamental difference between the dynamics obtained by the method of scaled self-assessment of the psychophysiological states. So in this case we cannot avoid the social desirability effect. In the future, it is necessary to develop practical principles of psychological training for service members planning to participate in the ATO.