Dynamics of indicators of cadets’ psycho-emotional state in the process of educational and combat activities

Abstract

The full-scale war in Ukraine, which has been going on for the third year, has a negative impact on both the physical and psycho-emotional states of military servicemen of all specialties. Training and combat activities of cadets in field environment, in the absence of physical exercises, can lead to a decrease in the emotional state, deterioration of well-being, mood, working capacity of cadets, and the emergence of neuro-emotional stress. The article is devoted to the study of the dynamics of indicators of cadets’ psycho- emotional state during the educational and combat activities in the field environment. Male cadets of the Military Institute of Tank Troops of the National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» were involved in the research, which was conducted in 2023-2024. To study the indicators of the cadets’ psycho-emotional state, we used three psychodiagnostic methods: "Self-assessment of the emotional state", "Scaled self-assessment of the psycho-physiological state", "Evaluation of neuro-emotional stress". Research methods: analysis and generalization of literary sources, methods of psychodiagnostics, methods of mathematical statistics. Deterioration of indicators of the psycho-emotional state of cadets of all courses of study during field classes of different duration according to all psychodiagnostic methods was revealed. The most pronounced negative changes are observed during longer field classes, and depending on the year of study, in junior year cadets. This may be due to insufficient emotional resistance to the stressful factors of educational and combat activities in junior cadets. Also, the obtained results allow us to assert the insufficient effectiveness of the traditional method of organizing and conducting physical training of cadets in field environment and the need for its improvement. In the future, we plan to investigate the impact of sports games on the recovery of cadets’ psycho-emotional state after field training of different durations.