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Extreme Psychology and Personal Safety
2025. Vol. 2, no. 3, 9–31
doi:10.17759/epps.2025020301
ISSN: 3034-3666 (online)

Personal resources of professional longevity of representatives of special risk professions of different age groups

 
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Abstract

Context and relevance. The development of pension reforms has impacted professions characterized by high stress levels, such as military and law enforcement, often leading to extended service periods. As active professional longevity increases, it becomes essential to explore factors that influence health preservation across different age groups. Objective. To investigate the influence of personal resources on the biological aging index among individuals in stressful professions of the realistic type. Hypothesis. Active engagement in personal resources (e.g., hobbies and interests) exerts varying effects on biological age across different age groups. Optimizing resource utilization may reduce the biological aging index. Methods and materials. The study included 1330 participants aged 23–70 years, comprising 432 individuals from stressful professions (M = 3,3, SD = 9,33; 28% women). The biological aging index was assessed using P.V. Voitenko’s method, while personal resources were evaluated via an author-developed questionnaire. Data analysis involved ANOVA, neural network modeling, and Student’s t-test. Results. Engagement in active hobbies can either mitigate or accelerate biological aging—serving as resources or additional stressors. The beneficial impact of active personal resources was most pronounced at retirement age; among mature professionals, the effect was negligible, and among young professionals, results were contradictory. For men, participation in sports emerged as a universal positive resource across all ages; women did not exhibit this pattern. Hobbies related to professional activities tended to act as stressors. Additionally, hobbies involving risk had a negative impact on stress levels in high-stress professions. Neural network modeling demonstrated that resource optimization could significantly decrease the biological aging index—particularly in young professionals (p < 0,01) and retirees (p < 0,01) among men. Conclusions. Selection of personal resources for professionals should consider gender, age, and profession type. Future research should explore passive hobbies, stress-inducing activities with hormetic effects, and potential delayed benefits of certain resources.

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Keywords: legal psychology, vitality, professional longevity, biological age, personal resources, stressful professions, high-risk professions, automatic neural networks

Journal rubric: General Psychology and Psychology Safety of the Personality

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/epps.2025020301

Received 04.08.2025

Revised 18.08.2025

Accepted

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For citation: Berezina, T.N., Zimina, A.A. (2025). Personal resources of professional longevity of representatives of special risk professions of different age groups. Extreme Psychology and Personal Safety, 2(3), 9–31. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/epps.2025020301

© Berezina T.N., Zimina A.A., 2025

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Tatiana N. Berezina, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Scientific Foundations of Extreme Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8188-237X, e-mail: tanberez@list.ru

Albina A. Zimina, Postgraduate Student, Chair of Scientific Foundations of Extreme Psychology, Moscow State University of psychology and education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3301-732X, e-mail: leederx@mail.ru

Contribution of the authors

Berezina T.N. — idea, planning of the experiment, selection of methods, statistical processing, writing of the article.

Zimina A.A. — participation in data collection, primary processing.

Both authors participated in the discussion of the results and approved the final text of the manuscript.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Ethics statement

The study was reviewed and approved by the Ethical Commission of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Extreme Psychology (protocol no. 1 dated 08/28/2025).

 

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