Diagnostics and prediction problem of personality adaptation in emergency situations under conditions of the Arctic Regions

Abstract

The emergency situations in the Arctic Regions arise both under the influence of natural and human factors. Personality disadaptation highly increases the risk of mistake in the activity, the risk of emergency. Diagnostics of personality adaptation is performed by means of objective and subjective methods and techniques. Both proved for decades and newly developed, modified techniques are applied for this purpose. The prediction problem of personality adaptation under conditions of the Arctic Regions retain its relevance in virtue of the increasing need for the experts capable to carry out professional tasks in special conditions, including overcoming difficulties of the emergency situations. The Arctic conditions demand higher standards of psychophysiological features of the person, its psychological resistance to negative factors of the environment, severe conditions. The research objective is a search of the possible summarized psychological profile of the personality adaptive to special conditions and also those features that are peculiar to representatives of the certain professions carrying out activity in special conditions. It is supposed that prediction of personality adaptation in emergency situations under conditions of the Arctic Regions is possible on the basis of highquality and complex diagnostics. Any prediction of personality adaptation is limited in time by the stability of primary activity, i.e. in the case of relocation, change of office questions range, etc., adaptation level can change. Research problems are: to consider the subject matter and meaning of diagnostics and prediction of personality adaptation in emergency situations under conditions of the Arctic Regions; to show the importance of system consideration of diagnostics and prediction of personality adaptation in emergency situations under conditions of the Arctic Regions; to show the connection of personal characteristics and adaptation of the persons having professional training of the activity in special conditions, and to separate the main clusters of the tested persons according to the adaptation level of the personality in the course of professional training; to develop possibilities of prediction of personality adaptation in the emergency situations under conditions of the Arctic Regions on the basis of diagnostics during professional training; to provide comparative analysis of psychological peculiarities of the studied subsampling depending on the course of study, future specialty, sex of the tested persons; to summarize the research results; to prove the further directions of theoretical and empirical researches on the basis of the results received. The main research methods applied: the theoretical and methodological analysis of literature, psychodiagnostics (a complex of techniques for studying of the personality characteristics including a technique of D. Keirsey in which the tendency to certain professions and the psychosemantic variation of a technique of T. Leary developed and approved by S.V. Zabegalina in which the behavioural trends of the personality are estimated, is specified). As an additional ones the method of the participatory observation, and for the empirical verification of the hypothetical assumptions methods of mathematical statistics was used. The cluster analysis allows to detach the main combinations of psychological characteristics of the persons trained for activity in special conditions including the emergency situations. Criteria of differences in our case give an opportunity to define essential characteristics for activity in special conditions in general and those qualities that mostly belong to professionally significant ones. Those characteristics that will be the general ones hypothetically concern to all experts of dangerous professions in the conditions of the Arctic Regions, in contrast those that will be peculiar only to cadets of FSIN Academy (Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia) or the students future rescuers – mean professional ones. Activity of the Ministry of Emergency Situations staff in the territory of the Arctic Regions has various character as they should face the largest range of emergency situations in comparison with other experts carrying out their activity in special conditions. In this regard the students of specialty "Protection in Emergency Situations" were taken as the tested persons, the second selection became cadets of FSIN Academy due to the fact that a considerable part of them further fulfills the professional duty in UFSIN of Russia (Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia) in the territory of the