Peculiarities of Stress Manifestation in Emercom Employees

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10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

professional activity, stress, stresses resistance, working capacity, professional burnout.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to research the characteristics of the occupational stress manifestation, one of the most pressing problems of extreme psychology. Furthermore, this problem is highly relevant for specialists of extreme professional activities (employees of security agencies: submariners, cosmonauts, employees of special divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, firefighters and rescuers of the EMERCOM of Russia). The author considers stress as the ability to overcome, manage one's behavior under extreme conditions (Derkach A.A., 2005). The article attempts to attribute significant psychological personality traits that provide stress resistance to professionally important psychological qualities of an individual which take their specificity depending on the type of professional activity. The author, relying on the methodological principles of acmeology, considers a person as constantly evolving subject at different levels of professionalism and success of professional activity (Derkach A.A., Zazykin V.G., Markova A.K., 2000). The professional activities of specialists of extreme professions take place under difficult and non-typical conditions with a threat to life and health, when there is a time limit associated with high responsibility for the lives of other people, etc. There is often violation of adaptive and coping mechanisms of the body. One of the manifestations of such disorders is occupational stress. The identification of stress manifestations in specialists of different professions and activities of the EMERCON is the basis for an effective prediction of their behavior, and, therefore, the success of their activities under extreme conditions.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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