Abstract

BACKGROUND. The relevance is due to the negative consequences caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for individuals and for society as a whole, covering almost all aspects of life at the macro and individual levels, and the lack of detailed studies of the psychological state of the population.
 AIM. Study of the specifics and dynamics of psychological adaptation in subjects during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 MATERIAL AND METHODS. Method of studying personality accentuations of K. Leonhard (modified by S. Shmishek); diagnostics of the state of aggression (Bass-Darkey questionnaire), multilevel personality questionnaire Adaptiveness by A.G. Maklakov and S.V. Chermyanin, test-questionnaire Health, activity, mood, clinical questionnaire for the detection and evaluation of neurotic conditions (Yakhin K.K., Mendelevich D.M.). Statistical analysis of the data was performed using Spearmans rank correlation coefficient, Students t-test for independent samples, and Students t-test for dependent samples. The study involved 51 people 16% are men and 84% are women, who were selected by a random continuous method, whose average age is 21.31.87 years. The study was carried out in 2 stages. The first stage: the end of April 2020 21 days after the start of voluntary self-isolation; second stage: end of September beginning of November 2020.
 RESULTS. The subjects were found to have such character accentuations as exaltation 94%, hyperthymism 88%, emotivity 86%, low level of personal adaptive potential (2.11.43), neurotic depression prevailed 43%, obsessive-phobic disorders 33%, conversion disorders 27%. The expression of aggression was carried out mainly through verbal aggression (6.352.43), guilt (5.591.72) and irritation (5.371.92).
 CONCLUSION. The subjects have a low level of personal adaptive potential, which increased with the end of self-isolation, accompanied by a gradual acceptance of what is happening, stabilization of the growth in the number of sick and dead, news about the development of measures to combat the spread of the virus, methods of treatment and prevention.

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