Dynamics of psychological safety of young men in cases of military service and studyingat a military institute

The present situation in the Russian Army, when the member of the Armed Forces is required to have accelerated readiness for new modernized conditions of military service (conscription, contract service, military institute), is undoubtedly actualising the importance of investigating his personality. The main aspect is the sense of psychological safety, which is considered by us as a potential of human development. Practically, all the works connected with studying personality refer to identification of specific mechanisms and certain changes at different age stages and discovery of common principles of personal development. Our basic assumption is defined by the idea that a person is able to develop only in the environment with definite parameters, psychological safety being one of the most essential. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the ability or inability of military institute students and conscripts of the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia to make use of appropriate conditions for their own development in terms of evaluation of dynamics of world assumptions, the subjective well-being level, life meaning orientations and susceptibility to anti-democratic ideology (the criteria of psychological safety). The conditions, under which life activity occurs, no doubt, affect the personal experience of subjective well-being, the perception and estimate of one's life as established and satisfying or as having negative colouring. The results obtained enable us to draw the conclusion that psychological safety of a person includes its consideration from the viewpoint of estimating the environment, providing/not providing this sense, and from the viewpoint of personal characteristics, permitting a person to support/not to support his safety, in their interrelationship. The sense of psychological safety possesses subjective content contributing to mental stability of a person and his life success and appears to be an important factor of his personal development as well.

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