Received 08.09.2021
Revised 17.11.2021
Accepted 20.12.2021
Retrieved from Vol. 12, No. 1, 2022
Pages 85 -99
Abstract
The article examines the features of the experience of combat stress by participants and non-participants in hostilities of military units and those who underwent a course of treatment in a hospital. In total 244 service members were interviewed. Of these, 126 soldiers underwent treatment in hospital (97 of them were combatants with injuries), as well as 118 healthy service members of regular units (84 of them took part in hostilities). Diagnosis of combat stress was carried out by the author’s combat stress questionnaire (CSQB). The features of the manifestation of acute stress disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders are shown; resources of service members at the cognitive, affective, motivational, and behavioral levels; stress factors that directly affect the personality of the service members; stress factors that indirectly emotionally affect the personality of the service members; an integrated indicator of combat stress. It is proved that when conducting a comparative analysis of the levels of combat stress experiences among healthy service members of regular units and those who are in hospital, the higher levels of combat stress experience in those who are undergoing treatment in hospital. This applies to both the integrated indicator of combat stress and indicators of signs of acute and post-traumatic stress disorders, resources used, direct and indirect manifestations of emotional stress. Among the four subscales of the CSQB combat stress questionnaire, the highest level is the subscale of acute and post-traumatic stress disorder among combatants who are in hospital. The second place is taken by the values of the resource subscale. In third place is the subscale of the impact of stress factors of indirect emotional affect on the personality of service members who are being treated in hospital. In fourth place among the military participants and non-combatants is an indicator of direct emotional stress to the individual’s personality
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