STUDY OF STRESS STABILITY OF EMPLOYEES OF MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISES
Background. The authors carried out a study of neuropsychic and emotional stress prevention in the working process: factors of professional stress, the impact of stress on labor productivity, motivation to work, workers’ health. Stress is considered a cause of professional "burnout". The stability to stress is assessed as a characterological quality. The aim of the work is to study the relationship between stress resistance and personal characteristics (by the example of municipal workers). Materials and methods. The study applied the following methods: the method of statistical data processing (r-Pearson correlation coefficient), "Life Style Analysis" test (Boston stress test), 16-factors personal questionnaire (author R. Kettell), "Subjective control level" questionnaire (USC) (auth. J. Rotter), questionnaire "Measuring the motivation for achievement" by A. Mehrabian in the modification of M. Sh. Magomed-Eminov. Results. The work has established the following: prevalence of the average level of stress resistance; prevalence of the level of internality in all the studied indicators, except for the area of production relations; the motivation to achieve is prevailed by the motive for avoiding failure; connection of stress resistance with certain personal characteristics. Conclusions. The results of the research make it possible to understand the psychological characteristics of the staff and to build the right line of conduct for employees and co-workers, and can also serve to develop psychological recommendations for the formation of effective ways to combat workers’ stress. At the same time, a system of measures aimed at reducing the risk of development of deviations in the health status and diseases of workers can be based on the data of the presented study and include the prevention of occupational and professionally conditioned diseases and diseases with temporary disability. The assumed areas of application of the material obtained are occupational health, public health, labor psychology.