THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

Abstract

The paper discusses the impact of socio-psychological factors, in particular: socio-demographic factors and factors of the internal educational environment, on the psychological security of university professors, which is a prerequisite to their effective work as professionals. The psychological meaning of the phenomenon “psychological security of the individual” manifests itself in his ability to maintain resilience in an environ- ment with certain parameters, including those with psycho-traumatic influences, in resistance to destructive internal and external influences and is expressed in awareness of his the security / insecurity in a particular life situation.
The empirical study was conducted using the survey of personality basic beliefs by M. Padun and A. Kotel- nikova, who interpret the set of implicit representations of a personality about the surrounding world, “my- self”, as well as ways of interaction between “myself” and the world, that are operationalized with a set of five subscales: “Benevolence of the surrounding world”, “Justice”, “Conviction about control”, “Image of myself” and “Luck”.
The conducted empirical research revealed that, among the presented basic beliefs as the criteria of psychological security in the environment of a higher educational institution, the highest index was received on the subscale “Image of myself”, and the lowest – on “Benevolence of the world” and “Justice”.
The obtained results for different departments of the chosen University are considered, as well as the existence of correlations of psychological security parameters with the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents and factors of the educational environment. The influence of the socio-demographic factor “age of respondents” on the indicators of psychological safety “Justice” and “Conviction on control” are revealed. Influence of the factors of the internal educational environment is revealed at the level of the statistical trend for the indicators “Justice” and “Image of myself”.