EMOTIONAL STIPULATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY OF A PERSON

Abstract

The article considers the phenomenon of psychological safety in the context of functional states and personal characteristics of a subject of activity. The basis of the study, on one hand, is the concept of psychological safety as a highly structured system of mental processes, with its essential component of the emotional well-being of the person, which is directly dependent on the emotion. On the other hand, value pyramid’s emotional and functional status determines the consideration of emotional functional states that influence in a systematic way the formation of all levels of development of the individual and are manifested in the individual styles of activity. This suggests an interaction of an emotional functional state and its activity, including a psychological safety of a subject of activity.

In accordance with a criterion of the adequacy of ones response (formed by the functional state) to the requirements of activities performed, a state of adequate mobilization and dynamic mismatch is considered. To determine the level of psychological safety these groups are related to its successful / unsuccessful implementation on the basis of compliance with the internal parameters and parameters of the outside world. As a complex psychological phenomenon, generated by the state of human security, a functional comfort acts as a functional state which characterizes the psychological safety of the subject of activity. Getting himself in a dangerous situation when there is a confluence of external and internal factors generates an appearance of negative emotions, functional states of mental tension and stress.

Psychological safety in the context of functional states and personal characteristics of the subject of activity requires the subject’s activity in regulation of their status in terms of non-optimal functional states. Maintaining an appropriate level of psychological security of the individual employee in the structure of the organizational activities related to the provision of optimal functional conditions, which are accompanied by positive emotions, feelings of satisfaction from the process of work and its results, the possibility of creative self-realization.

Strategies to achieve a psychological security can be based on the methods of emotional regulation, including the mechanisms of personality’s psychological defense and emotional-focused types of the coping behavior, which are aimed to reduce and to overcome the negative effects of human exposure to threats from the external and internal environments.