Features of professional and emotional burnout of academic staff due to the war condition in Ukraine
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https://doi.org/10.31548/hspedagog15(1).2024.159-171Abstract
A person's emotional state is one of the determining factors of professional life, and full-fledged mental health is the key to professional activity. The professional activity of academic staff (hereinafter AS) comprises variety different situations which arise every day with high emotional tension, intensity of interpersonal communication, and the need to resolve these conflict situations. Considering this, the problem of detection, prevention and overcoming of professional and emotional burnout is always relevant. This problem is exacerbated due to the war, when Ukrainians are under constant stress.The article elaborates scientific material on the essence of "professional and emotional burnout" syndrome; the next stages and signs of professional burnout have been highlighted, which, to some extent, emphasized and complemented previous studies, and also, in some aspects, differed significantly, emphasizing the terrible war consequences. It has been developed and implemented psychological tools for professional stress assessment and prevention as one of the main sources of reduced work efficiency and violations of teachers’ mental and physical health, and therefore their emotional burnout; ways of its prevention have been proposed in the article. The authors proclaim that if professional and emotional burnout occurs due to the war, this problem needs more attention and specific measures. The authors pay special attention to objective and subjective risk factors and offer a number of measures to eliminate them.
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