FEATURES OF DEPROFESSIONALIZATION OF MILITARY SERVICEMEN CAUSED BY ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORAL FACTORS

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study on the prevalence of behavioral addictions among military personnel and their impact on the development of deprofessionalization of military personnel. The most common types of behavioral addictions among military personnel are identified. In the group of subjects, the most common behavioral addictions are labor, urgency and computer/online game addictions, love addiction and healthy lifestyle addiction. At the same time, more than twenty percent of the surveyed servicemen showed signs of deprofessionalization (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, reduction of personal achievements) at an average and above average level. The comparative analysis showed that servicemen with experience in combat operations after the beginning of russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine had significantly higher rates of deprofessionalization (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, total burnout and deformation), and addictive behavior (addiction to interpersonal and intersex relationships, addiction to social networks and Internet surfing, gambling and gambling for money, cybercommunication, television and religious addiction, as well as the total addiction index and the general addiction propensity index). The results suggest that the performance of combat missions in conditions associated with a high risk to health and life and under the influence of combat stressors provoke the development of behavioral addictions and, as a result, deprofessionalization of servicemen. The correlations between the indicators of deprofessionalization of military personnel and the indicators of the severity of various behavioral addictions are analyzed. Prognostic regression models for indicators of deprofessionalization of servicemen are built and analyzed.