Changes in socio-psychological climate, team's mood and expedition members' status in dynamics of an Arctic voyage.

Abstract

Objective: To study the dynamics of socio-psychological climate and mood of the team, a functional status of an expedition members during an voyage. Methods: psychological testing, observation. Type of study: observational, descriptive. Sample: members of the expedition Arctic Floating University 2013, 38 people. Statistical methods: descriptive statistics, ANOVA with repeated measurements, the Friedman χ 2- criterion. Conclusions: 1. Knowledge of the features of the expedition team members composing the group formed for the first time increased from the beginning to the of the voyage. 2. The expedition duration (25 days) was not sufficient for the team to reach the stage of functional-role correlation. Development of the group unity did not significantly affect the team mood due to the onset of fatigue because of communication and work in monotonous conditions. 3. The features of the change of the expedition members' functional status were as follows: the delayed lowering of self-rating of the states (initially human condition itself worsened); the phase of reversing trends preceded the phase of resource use optimization; the phase of waiting for the voyage end was separated; during the voyage, specially arranged emotional events affected the participants' self-rating of the functional states; the changes in the states during the voyage did not have a large amplitude, in their manifestation was not extreme.