Аnalysis of the stress factors affecting the physical and mental health of the civilians living in the area of the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine

The article is an empirical study of the stress factors that affect the physical and mental health of the civilians living in the area of the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine. The article presents the results of the research based on the socio-psychological questionnaire "Determination of subjective perception of the significance of stress factors for a person living in the area of the armed conflict" developed by the author. The questions of the questionnaire were grouped into six blocks of stress factors: threats to life, health, economic, socio-political; social, psychological factors. It has been revealed that during the armed conflict significant transformations took place in the mental state of the residents living in difficult conditions. Empirically it has been shown that in the areas of intensive shelling (AIS) the main factors affecting the mental and physical health of the civilians are threats to health, threats to life, and also socialfactors, whereas in the areas of low-intensity shelling (ALIS) social, socio-political and psychological factors are of prior significance. The conclusion is made that the civilians living in the area of the armed conflict experience significant changes in physical and mental health, which in the post-conflict period may affect the formation of the sense of life strategies, changes in the value-semantic structure of the individual, having subjected them to a serious transformation.

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