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Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology
2026. Vol. 15, no. 1, 162–173
doi:10.17759/jmfp.2026150115
ISSN: 2304-4977 (online)

Psychological research on safety in extreme conditions: a scientometric analysis of foreign publications

 
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Abstract

Context and relevance. Safety in extreme conditions is of interdisciplinary interest; it has not received sufficient formalization in psychology. The difficulties of developing the topic require understanding the trends of publication activity in the relevant field. Objective. To carry out a scientometric analysis of the content of foreign publications on the problem of safety in extreme conditions. Hypothesis. Foreign studies of safety in extreme conditions are likely to have a heterogeneous structure and time of registration of subject interests. Methods and materials. The study was implemented on the PubMed abstract database based on three groups of queries. The bibliographic maps were processed by the VOSviewer_1.6.20 program. Results. The article presents the differentiation of foreign publications on safety in extreme conditions into three groups: interdisciplinary, psychological, and intra-psychological research. The structure of each of these groups and the dynamics of scientific interests are shown. Conclusions. On the basis of general scientific publications on safety in extreme conditions, works on the psychology of safety in extreme conditions were first developed, and then on psychological safety in extreme conditions. The formation of the subject area of security research in extreme conditions, its sensitivity to modern social demands, is stated. The issues of psychological safety in the extreme conditions of aging are outlined by the perspective of the development of the problem. The presented results may have limitations caused by the specification of the PubMed bibliographic database used, which is limited to life sciences and biomedicine.

 

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Keywords: safety, extreme conditions, publication, research, psychology of safety, psychological safety

Journal rubric: Legal Psychology and Psychology of Safety

Article type: review article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2026150115

Received 21.02.2025

Revised 09.07.2025

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For citation: Krasnyanskaya, T.M., Tylets, V.G. (2026). Psychological research on safety in extreme conditions: a scientometric analysis of foreign publications. Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology, 15(1), 162–173. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2026150115

© Krasnyanskaya T.M., Tylets V.G., 2026

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Tatiana M. Krasnyanskaya, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Professor of the Department of General, Social Psychology and History of Psychology, Moscow University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4572-6003, e-mail: ktm8@yandex.ru

Valery G. Tylets, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Industry, Head of the Department of Management and Hospitality Industry, Moscow Branch of the Russian International Academy of Tourism (Russian International Academy of Tourism), Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5387-6570, e-mail: tyletsvalery@yandex.ru

Contribution of the authors

Tatyana M. Krasnyanskaya — research ideas; annotation, analysis of the source base, writing of the primary version of the manuscript.
Valery G. Tylets — development of research methodology, selection of a source base, editing and formatting of the manuscript.
The 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 Ethics Committee of Moscow university for the humanities (report no. 2025/02/25).

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