Psychological health of personnel of educational and scientific organizations under conditions of war (Ukrainian experience)

Svitlana Bilozerska; Iryna Leshchenko; Halyna Cherusheva; Bukliv Roksoliana; Iryna Ushakova

doi:10.34069/AI/2022.58.10.20

Svitlana Bilozerska Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Drohobych, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9636-1756
Iryna Leshchenko Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University, Cherkasy, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9088-2075
Halyna Cherusheva National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Auditing, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9652-0913
Bukliv Roksoliana Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3837-5794
Iryna Ushakova Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University, Kremenchuk, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5758-2799

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.58.10.20

Keywords: Psychological health, personnel of educational and scientific organizations.

Abstract

Open Russian aggression against Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, quite predictably had a negative impact on the whole Ukrainian society. At the same time, employees of pedagogical and scientific industries experienced significant pressure, as they were among the vulnerable categories of the population subjected to special repressions in the occupied territories, and in subordinate Ukraine experienced restrictions due to the general fall of the standard of living. With this in mind, the purpose of the article is to analyze the psychological health of the personnel of educational and scientific institutions during martial law in Ukraine. Methods of comparison, content analysis, systematic approach, abstraction, predictive method, and modeling were used to write the floor. As a result, based on theoretical knowledge and certain empirical generalizations the formation of psychological problems of teachers and mechanisms of their overcoming are demonstrated. Particularly, the constituent parts of professional burnout of pedagogical workers are demonstrated, but also the mechanisms of protection against stressful situations which are available for use even during the continuation of military operations are suggested. The article also draws attention to the problem of the psychological health of scientific workers - it says about the gradual decline of labor prestige and funding of the scientific industry, especially intensified during the war. The average age of scientists in Ukraine is quite high, so it entailed a decrease in the level of self-control and increased dependence on the opinion of others. The conclusions summarize ways to improve the psychological state, noting that the continuation of war and destruction will have a further negative impact.

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Author Biographies

Svitlana Bilozerska, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Drohobych, Ukraine.

Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor Department of Psychology Faculty of History, Pedagogy and Psychology, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Drohobych, Ukraine.

Iryna Leshchenko, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University, Cherkasy, Ukraine.

PhD (Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences), Associate Professor Department of Pedagogy and Psychology Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University, Cherkasy, Ukraine.

Halyna Cherusheva, National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Auditing, Ukraine.

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Docent, Professor of the Head of the career guidance Department of philosophy, law and social and humanitarian disciplines, Faculty of Finance and Economics, National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Auditing, Ukraine.

Bukliv Roksoliana, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine.

Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Substances Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine.

Iryna Ushakova, Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University, Kremenchuk, Ukraine.

PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor of Department of Psychology, Pedagogy and Philosophy, Faculty of Law, Humanity and Social Sciences Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University, Kremenchuk, Ukraine.

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