SUBSTANTIATION OF REQUIREMENTS FOR PROVISION OF INFORMATION-PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY OF SERVICEMEN OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE AT THE STAGE OF SERVICE (COMBAT) MISSIONS PERFORMANCE

Abstract

The enhanced extreme conditions of servicemen and the National Guard of Ukraine teams, units and formation activities while performing service tasks and combat missions depends on psychogenic factors which lead to disorder of psychological functions as well as to mental disorder.

The impact of psychogenic factors typically manifested in such kind of phenomena: loss of ability to orient in situation; unconscious confused behavior; loss of skills in use of weapons; loss of professional qualities; negative individual emotions, moral and legal instability, which lead to cases of antisocial behavior and, sometimes – to criminal behavior. The mentioned above is also impacted destructively by information-psychological factor, which is conducted by introduction of destructive information into servicemen′s both conscious and subconscious mind which leads to distorted perception of reality and inadequate behavior of a serviceman. The introduction of destructive information also impact on group both conscious and subconscious mind which leads to changes into group psychology and collective behavior which decrease the effectiveness of special operation and represented by ineffective activities both a serviceman and a unit related to mission and task compliance and combat actions as a result. 

Development of protection mechanisms is quite long and hard process for an individual, which makes the issue of an individual′s protection from negative information-psychological impact actual. In particular, it is fully concerns to servicemen and military units of the National Guard of Ukraine while performing service tasks and combat missions.