DYNAMICS OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS IN MILITARY UNITS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF SERVICE AND COMBAT TASKS IN THE AREA OF THE UFO (UNITED FORCES OPERATION)

Abstract

We made our research in one of the current contractual units of the National Guard of Ukraine, which during long trips to the East of Ukraine, performs service and combat tasks with an increased level of danger to life in the zone of the United Forces Operation (UFO). The purpose of the study was to identify the dynamics of interpersonal relations between servicemen when they perform the above-mentioned service and combat missions.

Our study showed that during performing dangerous service-combat tasks, positive interpersonal relations in a military unit are formed at an accelerated pace, which leads to a significant improvement in the psychological climate and an increase of its combat coordination.

In the unit under study, substantial growth and stabilization of the number of positive sociometric elections and individual sociometric statuses was observed only after the third mission of troopers to the zone of the United Forces Operation. This indicates that a trooper gains his personal status in a military unit that participates in actual combat, mainly through the qualitative fulfillment of his military duty, as well as due to his personal qualities, which he  demonstrates in conditions of a real threat to his life and health.

All above-mentioned, allows us to conclude that the dynamics of the development of interpersonal relations in military units are mediated by the values, goals and content of military activities. The fulfillment of a long and dangerous combat mission, the experience of all the hardships of military life together makes the servicemen unite and mobilize. These circumstances make the military unit more cohesive, harmonious and effective, forming in it the phenomenon of “militant fraternity”.

The prospect of further research we see in the search of factors that accelerate the formation of positive interpersonal relations in military units. As such factors, we highlight the ideological orientation of the personality of the trooper, the motivation for concluding a contract, as well as her personal and fighting qualities.