Authors:
Nataliia Pinchuk
1
;
Oleksandra Pinchuk
2
;
Olena Bondarchuk
1
;
Valentyna Balakhtar
3
;
Kateryna Balakhtar
3
;
4
;
Nataliia Onopriienko-Kapustina
5
;
Mariya Shyshkina
6
and
Olena Kuzminska
7
Affiliations:
1
University of Educational Management, 52A Sichovykh Striltsiv Str., Kyiv, 04053, Ukraine
;
2
Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, 19 Kyoto Str., Kyiv, 02156, Ukraine
;
3
National Aviation University, 1 Liubomyra Huzara Ave., Kyiv, 03058, Ukraine
;
4
O. O. Bogomolets National Medical University, 13 Tarasa Shevchenko Blvd., Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine
;
5
Hryhoriy Skovoroda University in Pereyaslav, 30 Sukhomlynskoho Str., Pereyaslav, 08401, Ukraine
;
6
Institute for Digitalisation of Education, 9 M. Berlynskoho Str., Kyiv, 04060, Ukraine
;
7
National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 15 Heroiv Oborony Str., Kyiv, 03041, Ukraine
Keyword(s):
Professional Stress, Crisis, Remote Work, Mental Health, Psychological Safety.
Abstract:
This article highlights the problem of professional stress of workers in the mass transition to remote work caused by the difficult conditions of our time in a pandemic COVID-19. Based on the results of theoretical analysis of scientific literature, the classification of the main models of stress is given. The content, features, factors, consequences of professional stress of workers working remotely in general in a pandemic in particular are highlight. Personal indicators of professional stress of employees are revealed. The role of personal qualities of employees in the emergence of professional stress as a buffer that mediates the impact of stressors, enhancing their action, or inhibiting it, negatively affecting the mental health, psychological safety of employees and the quality of their professional activities are shown. The results of an empirical study show that the influence of stressors, which is significantly enhanced in the forced transition to remote work, caus-ing viola
tions in the communicative, emotional, volitional and need-motivational spheres of personality of employees in general and depending on gender and age and professional features of employees in particular. The expediency of taking into account the personal characteristics of employees to prepare them for the prevention and overcoming of professional stress, developing the ability of employees to conscious and active stress management and counteracting stressors is stated. The article presents the components of the program of professional stress prevention for employees working remotely in crisis (cognitive, motivational, volitional, communicative). The data on approbation of the program is given, which testify to its positive influence on the dynamics of stress subjective perception. Prospects for further research aimed at large-scale implementation of the program in postgraduate education are outlined.
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