FEATURES OF EXPERIENCING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SITUATION BY PEOPLE OF CREATIVE AND NON-CREATIVE PROFESSIONS

The psychological features of the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic by representatives of the creative and non-creative spheres of activity are examined in the article. The spectrum of actual psychological problems studied in line with the problems of psychology of everyday life and transitivity is demonstrated. It is considered as a pandemic of the COVID-19 epidemic that changed the world and affected such aspects of our lives as: work, study, leisure activities, etc. It is described how the coronavirus pandemic has revealed many unfavorable factors affecting mental and psychological health. The sample of the study is 216 people (N=216). Of these: 101 people are representatives of creative professions. 115 people are representatives of non–creative fields of activity. The results of the study demonstrate that representatives of the creative field of activity have more successfully passed the situation of self-isolation in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic due to individual and personal characteristics such as openness to new experiences, tolerance to uncertainty, which contribute to the successful overcoming of difficult life situations characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. These studies confirm the general trend that representatives of creative professions will be psychologically more stable in a situation of variability of modern transitive space