ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ О ТРУДЕ И ТРУДЯЩИХСЯ В МОСКОВСКОМ УНИВЕРСИТЕТЕ — К 50-ЛЕТИЮ КАФЕДРЫ ПСИХОЛОГИИ ТРУДА И ИНЖЕНЕРНОЙ ПСИХОЛОГИ

Abstract

Relevance. The paper outlines the main branches of research work and development projects carried out by researchers and lecturers of the Work and Engineering Psychology department, Faculty of Psychology. It studies the contribution of the four heads of the department (professors V.P. Zinchenko, E.A. Klimov, Yu.K. Strelkov, A.B. Leonova) to the development of the main research areas within psychology of work content and work environment, as well as in workers’ psychology. Results. The main research results obtained by the department’s staff are arranged according to the main areas of scientific research supervised by the head of the department: 1) The 60s and 70s: studies of cognitive and senso-motor processes in the work of automated system operators — the birth of engineering psychology (V.P. Zinchenko) and the revival of labor psychology (Yu.V. Kotelova); 2) The 80–90s (E.A. Klimov) — problems of human psychology as subject of labor: research of professional consciousness, work motivation, mental regulators of labor based on the psychological interpretation of the subject of labor activity and its components; 3) The first decade of the XXI century (Yu.K. Strelkov) — research of transport professions, the formation of a temporal approach in engineering psychology, methods for studying the operational and semantic experience of a professional; 4) 2015–2020 (A.B. Leonova) — a series of studies of occupational stress and other functional states on the basis of structural-integrative approach; problems of organizational psychology and cognitive ergonomics. Conclusion. The study singles out and discusses prospective areas of future research, such as psychology of professional health, psychology of rest, psychology of security (of an individual, collective, organization, society as a whole); psychological study of the transformation of professionals’ psyche in the digital age, psychology of trust