Emotional Maturity and War-Related Stress

Abstract: It is known that emotional maturity and its features are closely integrated with various properties, processes, states, and qualities in the human psyche, performing an important evaluative and regulatory functions. Such functions acquire a special role when a person is experiencing war related stresse. This work investigates how emotional maturity is manifested in civilians suffering from various military operations related stresses. The following tasks were solved: first, to generalize and clarify data on emotional maturity and the characteristics of stress perception; second, to empirically investigate the characteristics of emotional maturity, including its features and the manifestation of stress in people suffering from war related conditions. Our hypothesis was that there are complexes of various properties of emotional maturity, among which there are leading ones that can characterize specifics of a person's perception of certain levels of stress. Determining and taking into account the latter can contribute to an adequate approach to finding means of prevention and psychocorrection of stress, as well as conditions for the development of emotional maturity.It was shown that an integral assessment of the content of emotional maturity can be carried out on the basis of such features as: first, introextensiveness, extraexpressiveness and general expressiveness; second, introself-regulation, extraself-regulation and general self-regulation; third, introempathy, extraempathy and general empathy. When understanding stress, assessments of its perception, overexertion, resistance, stress resistance can be important. When solving the second task, based on a survey of 69 people aged 21 to 45, two groups were distinguished: those who had a high level of stress (52.3%) and those who had mainly an average level of its manifestation (47.5%). The difference in all stress indicators between the groups was statistically significant (P<0.05). Similar differences in emotional maturity indicators according to its full features were also found.Based on the correlation analysis in the group of people with a high level of stress, the complex included indicators characterizing the connections are: stress resistance with perception, overexertion and resistance at the level of (P <0.05); extraso-regulation, as well as self-regulation with the perception of stress (P < 0.01). Based on the above, it can be assumed that in people with a high level of stress, the complex of properties that can characterize their emotional maturity includes a high level of extra-self-regulation and average self-regulation, where the latter is the leading one in this complex. In the group with a predominantly average level of stress, relationship was found between stress resistance and intro-self-regulation, self-regulation, and the integral indicator of emotional maturity at the level ((P< 0.01). There were also relationships at the level (P <0.01) of the indicator of stress perception with intro-empathy, empathy, and general emotional maturity, which is the leading one in this complex (P<0.05). Taking into account the specifics of the described complexes and the leading ones among them that characterize emotional maturity can serve as the basis for an adequate selection of means of prevention and psychocorrection of stress in people suffering from war related conditions.

Keywords: war related stresses, emotional maturity, prevention of long term affects of war stress

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1006127

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