Modern military psychology: diversity of research
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https://doi.org/10.29038/2227-1376-2023-42-hosKeywords:
military psychology, military personnel, military identity, Russian-Ukrainian war, mental health of the military, cognitive and affective stress resistance of military personnel, social adaptation and psychorehabilitation of veteransAbstract
Purpose. The article provides a general overview of the multivariate coverage features of military psychology, in particular typical thematic vectors and perspectives of studying military-psychological problems.
Methods. To realize the research goal, we used such methods of scientific and theoretical study: analysis, synthesis, abstraction, generalization, which made it possible to establish the specificity of modern multi-vector research in branch of military psychology.
Results. Review of the scientific and psychological resource base on problems of military psychology gave grounds to state a broad thematic openness of the research. Active scientific studies cover a wide range of military-psychological topics: from peculiarities of hybrid and real war to the specifics of combat stress, trauma, mental health, psychorehabilitation, etc. An analytical review of the typical thematic dominants that are highlighted in modern military psychology was carried out.
Conclusions. Military psychology is becoming more and more relevant, first of all, in connection with the need for psychological justification and explanation of the growing geopolitical instability in the world and the increase in the number of military conflicts. In Ukraine, the increase in the number of scientific and psychological research is primarily due to the Russian-Ukrainian war. The psychological study of the military man appears as one of the dominant vectors of scientific research. Modern scientific and psychological research in the field of military psychology is characterized by a variety of topics: from the psychogenesis of military identity to the organized assistance of the military during the COVID-19 pandemic; from the problems of providing psychological assistance to combatants to the specifics of alcohol consumption by young people who are going to serve in the army; from negative consequences for the military caused by sleep deprivation to the psychology of virtual cybercrime.
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