Social Content of Psychological Specialists’ Professional Activity

Valerii Bosniuk (), Iryna Ostopolets (), Nataliia Svitlychna (), Oksana Miroshnichenko (), Tetiana Tsipan () and Serhii Kubitskyi ()
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Valerii Bosniuk: National University of Civil Defence of Ukraine
Iryna Ostopolets: Donbass State Pedagogical University
Nataliia Svitlychna: National University of Civil Defence of Ukraine
Oksana Miroshnichenko: Academy of the State Penitentiary Service
Tetiana Tsipan: Rivne State University for the Humanities
Serhii Kubitskyi: National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Postmodern Openings, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 01-20

Abstract: The study defines two main research areas of ideas about a rescuer psychologist. The first area is devoted to the issue of creating social representations about the specialist psychologist and his/her relations with representatives of other professional groups. The other area is represented by works focused on the direct analysis of the profession of psychologist, specific peculiarities of professional activity and personal characteristics of the psychologist. It is indicated that the study of the representations about rescuer psychologist’ involves collective consciousness, and the main direction that allows to solve the reconstruction problem of idea about a rescuer psychologist in the system of categories and conceptual coordinates is psychosemantics. For this purpose, the method of associative experiment defines the basic constructs used by the population to evaluate the representation about a psychologist. The obtained words associations were used to develop a method of semantic scaling of the concept "Psychologist". The research has constructed the semantic profiles of perception of a civilian psychologist and a rescuer psychologist, their most pronounced characteristics were defined. With the help of multidimensional scaling the place of rescuer psychologist in psychosemantic space of psychologists of different kinds of activity was determined. Thus, the rescuer psychologist has the closest professional similarity with a military psychologist and forensic psychologist. According to the respondents' opinion, he/she (a rescuer psychologist) mainly provides psychological correction and rehabilitation, he/she has to work in uncomfortable and dangerous conditions, and also to deal with both individual and group psychological problems.

Keywords: representation; rescuer psychologist; civilian psychologist; psychosemantics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.18662/po/12.1/242

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