ISSN: 2578-5095
Authors: Boltivets SI* and Stepyko M
Russian military aggression against Ukraine has as its consequence not only the destruction of its cities and villages, the civil infrastructure of the country, but also a significant aggravation of the mental health problems of Ukrainian citizens. It is shown that, in the conditions of war, all the usual meaning of human activity is reduced to its basic factor - personal safety. At the same time, the war showed a high level of people's vitality, became an important factor in overcoming anemic moods, consolidating its citizens, forming a single system-forming psychological marker — pride for one's country. Based on the analysis of sociological surveys, it is also shown that the hope for a quick victory over the enemy has transformed into a certain "habituation" to war, which has both a positive and a negative side. Positive - the Ukrainians did not get stuck in the first shock phases of perceiving the horrors of war, they adapted to them in a certain way, began to perceive the war as a new reality, negative - an illusory decrease in the sense of threat from the occupier, which shifts aggression - from an external enemy to a search for an internal one. The war sharply highlights the identity of citizens, their division into patriots and defenders, and persons with a split consciousness indifferent to their own self-determination – collaborators, zombified by enemy propaganda, traitors, etc. Russian aggression significantly affected the self-identification of Ukrainian citizens. The factors of self-identification have also changed significantly: if earlier the vast majority of respondents indicated the priority of family inheritance, then the consequence of the war was the preference over the inheritance of the civil union.
Keywords: Mental Health; Safety; Anomie; Deconstruction of Identities; Meaning of Life; Self-Identification; Solidarity
