FEATURES OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS OF ADOLESCENTS WHOSE MOTHERS LIVED IN THE TERRITORIES OF MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE PERIOD BEFORE PREGNANCY

Abstract

Relevance. Military conflicts around the world have continued to grow steadily in recent decades. The fighting taking place in populated areas, near residential buildings, cannot but affect the civilian population. Being on the territory of an ongoing military operation is associated with a threat to life, which is a powerful stressor and, under certain conditions, can cause violations of the regulation of the functional systems of the body, which subsequently lead to the formation of nosology.

Goal. To determine the features of psychophysiological status of adolescents whose mothers lived in the zone of armed conflict during hostilities.

Materials and methods. The features of the psychological status of adolescents in the Republic of Dagestan, whose mothers experienced a high risk of terrorist threat during the occupation by militants in September 1999, were analyzed. The results of psychodiagnostic techniques were studied in 548 girls aged 11-14 years and 1090 boys aged 13-17 from the Republic of Dagestan. Of these, 270 girls and 376 boys had mothers in areas exposed to the terrorist threat and occupation by terrorists in 1999, and 278 girls and 614 boys were the offspring of mothers who were not subjected to vital stress.

Results. The analysis showed that mild depression and masked depression in adolescents of both sexes, whose mothers experienced a life-threatening mental trauma, was determined much more often than in the group of adolescents whose mothers did not experience vital stress. At the same time, there were no cases of severe depression in both groups.

Adolescents of both sexes, whose mothers experienced vital stress in the period before pregnancy, are characterized by a high level of neuroticism, combined with introversion. Boys are characterized by self-doubt, emotional instability, vulnerability combined with resentment and suspicion, at the same time, at the age of 13 to 14, these boys are less aggressive than their peers from the control group. Girls are characterized by coldness, formality in contacts, as a rule, they take a destructive position in conflicts.

Conclusion. The presence of mothers in the pregravid period in the zone of military conflict, associated with high psycho-emotional stress, leads to the peculiarities of the psycho-physiological functioning of their children. Data have been obtained that allow us to speak about gender differences in neurodynamic characteristics: in girls, the processes of excitation prevailed, in boys, the processes of inhibition. With identically high rates of neuroticism-introversion, the girls had higher rates of aggressiveness.