ПОСТРАВМАТИЧНИЙ СТРЕСОВИЙ РОЗЛАД ЯК НАСЛІДОК ВПЛИВУ БОЙОВОГО СТРЕСУ НА ВІЙСЬКОВОСЛУЖБОВЦІВ

Abstract

Introduction Combat mental traumas can have a long-term negative impact on the psyche of servicemen, which contributes to the deformation of the personality of soldiers, and also become a significant obstacle to adaptation to military service and peaceful, everyday, normal life. Signs of combat mental trauma can persist for a long time in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder.Purpose The purpose of the article is to clarify and specify the effects of combat stress on the personality of servicemen.Research methods. To achieve the goal of the study, theoretical analysis and generalization of literature sources, including the study of empirical data on specific issues, were used.Originality revealed that combat mental trauma is the result of a soldier's strong experience of the stress factors of the combat situation, which causes a temporary mental disorder that leads to partial and sometimes complete loss of combat capability. Also, it was clarified that post-traumatic stress disorder as a consequence of the impact of combat stress on the psyche of soldiers significantly affects the deformation of their personality. The objective and subjective factors that cause mental disorders, as well as the procedure for determining the level of combat psychological stress. Accordingly, it is established that combat stress mobilizes bodily and mobilization resources to ensure the successful functioning of the psyche in three environments: combat external, social external group and internal individual-personal. This process is carried out in conditions of intense, long and powerful stressors. The impact on servicemen of emotional and informational components of psychological stress encourages their adaptation to the combat environment at appropriate (low, medium, high) levels of stress, corresponding to the constructive, negative and traumatic impact of combat stress on the personality of servicemen.This allows to improve the organization of primary psychological care for servicemen, as well as more productive use of psychodiagnostic tools, which will contribute to its systematic study, improvement, expansion.Conclusions According to the results of the study we can reasonably conclude that the action of stressors causes not only a temporary psychological reaction, but also the emergence of a mental state that ensures the functioning of the psyche of servicemen in combat (activity) external, social external group and internal individual. This process can be carried out under conditions of intense, prolonged and powerful exposure to stress factors during the stages of adaptation to combat activities (alarm, resistance and depletion). The constructive, negative and traumatic impact of combat stress on servicemen at low, medium and high levels of stress, respectively, has been determined.