Comparative analysis of psychological safety of shift workers in the South and North of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The purpose of the study: to identify the features of psychological safety of specialists in shift work organization in the North and South of the Russian Federation. Samples: 1) 68 shift workers of diamond production in the Far North at the age of 26 to 59 years, the experience of the shift method in the North from 1 to 30 years; 2) 82 shift workers employed in the construction of the Crimean bridge, aged 21 to 64 years , the experience of the shift method in the South from 1 to 20 years. Methods of research: 1) psycho-physiological level of psychological safety – a "Complex visual-motor reaction" and "Variation cardiointervalography" made using the device of psychophysiological testing UPFT-1/30 "Physiologist"; 2) psychological level of color test M. lusher with the calculation of interpretation coefficients G. A. Amineva; 3) the image of the object of labour and subject of labour – questionnaire; 4) the image of the subject-object and subject-subject relations – "Express-method" for the study of socio-psychological climate in labor collective O. S. Michaluk and A. Yu. Shalyto. Statistical methods: two-stage cluster analysis, multivariate variance analysis, contingency tables. Statistical data processing was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 23.00 statistical package. Comparing with the model of psychological safety of workers of diamond production and builders of the Crimean bridge, such components as psychological and psychophysiological levels of the functional status, the components of the image of the object of labor and the image of the subject of labor, as well as the image of the subject-object and subjective relations coincide. It is established that in the South the emergency adaptation strategy is used to a greater extent (81.9%) than in the Far North (54.2%), which poses the risk of depletion of internal reserves by the end of the shift. There are differences in the psychophysiological level of functional status: in the South, more employees have a reduced level of functional status (62.9%) than in the North (44.4%). this tells us that employees of the Far North have a higher level of functionality than employees of the South. According to the image of the object of labor there is a positive trend, both in the South (71.8%) and in the Far North (76.1%), workers give low and undifferentiated hazard assessment, this means that workers do not see a special danger of dangerous situations in the shift period. Regarding the image of the subject of labor, it should be noted that in the Far North (63.1%) and in the South (94.8%) give a higher assessment of their professionalism. The component image of subject-object and subject-subject relations, as in the Far North (43.1%) and in the South (41.8%) workers give a positive assessment.