FORMING FIRE-FIGHTERS’ PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL READINESS TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF EMERGENCY

Abstract

Introduction. The article considers the problem of forming fire-fighters’ professional psychological readiness to deal with the consequences of emergency. The authors highlight that effective professional and psychological training is one of the determining factors for training fire-fighters.Purpose. The purpose of the research is to analyze professional activities of fire-fighters as well as the unfavourable influence of pathogenic factors and determine conditions of fire-fighters’ professional psychological readiness to deal with the consequences of emergency.Methods. Theoretical and empirical research methods have been used. Theoretical methods include the analysis of the papers by the domestic researchers and generalization of the obtained information. Observation, questioning, testing have been applied for the experimental part of the study.Originality. Having analyzed domestic research papers, the authors point out that separate aspects of the above problem have been explored so far. They include the study of professional characteristics of rescue workers and fire-fighters, integrative personality approach to psychological analysis of activity, systemic and structural approach to the study of psychological readiness for activity, etc. A special investigation on forming fire-fighters’ professional psychological readiness to deal with the consequences of emergency becomes relevant.Conclusion. The authors conclude that psychological readiness is a specific psychological entity that has a complex dynamic structure between which there are functional dependencies.The research proves that the profession of a fire-fighter and rescuer has specific features, which include high level of danger, high level of trauma, high level of stress, riskiness, high level of responsibility, uncertainty of a situation, actions in conditions of limited space and time deficiency. All this leads to the development of high requirements for professionally important qualities of fire-fighters.Successful activity depends on the level of employees’ basic components of psychological readiness: motivational, cognitive, will, regulatory (emotional) and typological.