Psychology of safety

In modern psychoanalysis, the scientific direction of the psychology of security includes many aspects, such as the psychology of man in an extreme situation, psychological safety in the labor and social spheres, the psychology of environmental safety, and so on.

Be able to resist!

Under the very notion of psychological security is usually understood one of the properties of the personality , characterizing the degree of its protection from various negative and destructive factors directed at it from the outside world.

The psychology of personal safety is important, first of all, by the fact that the necessary level of a comfortable mental state of a person depends on it, in which he can fulfill his professional and social functions without fear for his own life and without fear at the thought of the negative consequences of the development of that situation, a hostage which he feels himself.

One of the most important characteristics of a person's psychology of security is resilience and resilience, since it is from them that human behavior depends in various crisis and extreme situations, as well as the ability to quickly make the right decisions that help in the shortest possible time to find a way out of the circumstances.

Bad for all - bad for me

In addition, the safety of every member of society (be it, for example, the physical, ecological or economic varieties thereof) is known to depend on the level of security of the whole society as a whole and, accordingly, the psychology of social security is directly related to the general situation in the country or the micro- or macro-socium, to which the individual relates himself. Statistics show that in the case of a significant deterioration in general economic indicators of the state or when the country is involved in military operations, indices reflecting the level of psychological comfort of an individual person are sharply reduced, which is understandable. People begin to worry for their future and for the future of their loved ones, and as a consequence, there is an aggravation, and in some cases, even the acquisition of various phobias and psychosomatic diseases.

Thus, security in psychology is a concept not only closed on one specifically selected personality, but also reflecting the multifaceted processes taking place in the micro and macro scales of the whole society.