PSYCHOTRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES OF ADOLESCENTS DURING THE WAR IN UKRAINE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29038/2227-1376-2025-45-khaKeywords:
psychotraumatic experiences of adolescents, war in Ukraine, post-traumatic stress disorder, combat operations, the line of combat operations, to be quite close to the line of combat operationsAbstract
Purpose of this article is to describe psychotraumatic experiences of adolescents during the war in Ukraine.
Methods of the research. The following theoretical methods of the research were used to solve the tasks formulated in the article: a categorical method, structural and functional methods, the methods of the analysis, systematization, modeling and generalization. The experimental method was the method of organizing empirical research.
The results of the research. We showed that the first factor recorded those indicators that indicated the rejection of their ethnic and national-cultural identity by adolescents who had been resettled as a result of military operations from the eastern Ukraine, from the city of Luhansk to the city of Rivne, Rivne region and Khmelnytskyi region in February, 2022. As a result, adolescents developed psycho-traumatic experiences in war conditions. Therefore, the program of the formative experiment was modeled by us in such a way as to correct the ethnic and national-cultural identity of adolescents who were resettled as a result of military operations from eastern Ukraine, from the city of Luhansk to the city of Rivne, Rivne region and Khmelnytskyi region in February, 2022.
Conclusions. We proved that psychotraumatic experiences of adolescents or post-traumatic stress disorder occurred in individuals who had experienced war events that traumatized the personality, most often in the conditions of combat operations or in situations, which were close to combat operations (for example, in a case of people, children who are in the conditions of combat operations, on the line of combat operations, or quite close to the line of combat operations).
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