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Ability to Overcome Border Guards’ Psychological Barriers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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  • Dmytro Oleshko

    (Ph. D. in Psychology, Lecturer of the Border Guard Service Department, BohdanKhmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)

  • Maksym Filippov

    (Ph. D. in Psychology, Associate Professor of the General Military Disciplines Department, BohdanKhmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)

  • Yurii Bets

    (Ph. D. in Pedagogics, Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages Department, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)

  • Iryna Basaraba

    (Lecturer of the Foreign Languages Department, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)

  • Iryna Bets

    (Ph. D. in Pedagogics, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer of the Foreign Languages Department, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)

  • Artem Bratko

    (Ph. D. in Military Sciences, Associate Professor of the General Military Disciplines Department, BohdanKhmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)

Abstract

The article reveals an analysis of the ability of border guards to overcome psychological barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few months, the psychological strain in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic has increased significantly, which has affected the ability of border guards to overcome psychological barriers. The article examines the impact of such psychological support in the form of online classes and provides recommendations for the applied use of the program to develop the ability to overcome border guards’ psychological barriers, developed by the authors. The authors suggested a number of methods to test the ability in order to overcome the psychological barriers of border guards in difficult working conditions, and also tested these methods. To examine the ability of border guards to overcome psychological barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic, an online survey of respondents was conducted. The results of the survey were compared with the results in 2014. The study also included the testing of online training programs, which provided for the simulation of service situations in order to correct the errors that are most common done by officers. A constructive part of the study was the research and analysis of psychoregulation and correction of negative, uncomfortable states, emotional, affective and sensory spheres. At the final stage there was a consolidation of the positive results achieved in the process of classes, discussion by the students of the group of experience, emotions, own states.

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  • Dmytro Oleshko & Maksym Filippov & Yurii Bets & Iryna Basaraba & Iryna Bets & Artem Bratko, 2020. "Ability to Overcome Border Guards’ Psychological Barriers During the Covid-19 Pandemic," Journal of Mediation & Social Welfare, Editura Lumen, vol. 2(1), pages 44-59, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:jmswjo:v:2:y:2020:i:1:p:44-59
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/jmsw/2.1/11
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    Keywords

    Border guards; overcoming psychological barriers; analysis of psychological state; a program to develop the ability to overcome psychological barrier; psychological barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic;
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    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • K1 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law
    • K2 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law
    • K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior

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