Hardware Psychodiagnosis of Resilience Indicators Mental Health

Hardware Self-Control

Apparatus-psychological objectification of the main indicators of mental health has important psychohygienic significance for each person to acquire knowledge about his own individuality and self-regulation of his own mental states. The hardware and software complex of psychological and professional diagnostics with the function of remote control is presented in the researches of Varlamova NV, et al. [1], where the speed of human reactions to light, color, sound and tactile stimuli is given. The specified components of a single information-measuring and management decision- making system in the subject area are important for the study of professional suitability and the psychophysiological state of a person. Among the general-purpose psychological equipment in the practice of psychologists in different countries of the world, the apparatus for mirror drawing, human labyrinth, finger labyrinth, memory drum, colour mixer, stability tester, metronome, anthropometer, sliding caliper, craniophorus, goniometer, techistoscope, chronoscope and others are used [2]. Computer programs that have permeated all aspects of psychological practice are discussed in detail in psychodiagnostic computing by Watkins MW, et al. [3]. It should be noted that the problematic areas of psychodiagnostics in the mentioned directions were outlined almost half a century ago in the work of B. Kleinmuntz and Don N. Kleinmuntz by modeling a hypothetical psychodiagnostic system that can function in artificially created mental health environments. The idea is to combine the psychodiagnostic system and the clinician’s strategies to take advantage of the computer in combination with human information processing [4]. Joseph DM [5] draws attention to the discrepancy in the development of computers and related hardware for the computer interpretation of psychological tests, which is an important advance in the field of psychological assessment. Unfortunately, as noted by Joseph DM [5], the development and verification of related software is not as advanced as the hardware.

A special place among researches in which psychological equipment is used belongs to immersive technologies. Peculiarities of their use are covered by Matthew L, et al. [6], Max M, et al. [7], Daniel, et al. [8].

Self-monitoring of one’s own mental functioning is especially important in the process of treating mental disorders and the long-term rehabilitation of patients with chronic mental illnesses, as it allows to activate awareness of the main objective parameters of one’s own mental capabilities in relation to the desired capabilities necessary for a full-functioning life.

The patient’s subjective perception of his doctor, clinical psychologist as a trusted person in the matter of restoring mental health, thanks to instrumental and psychological data, acquires a reliable basis of objective mediation in self- movement to improve his own abilities to reveal individual capabilities, his own activity and self-regulation. In order to determine the individual psychological abilities and state of each person, we developed and applied the psychological apparatus “Hyst”, which summarizes the obtained data in a psychogram.

Psychological Apparatus “Hyst”

Structurally, the “Hyst” device is manufactured by the Kyiv Telekom-pneumatik plant as a separate device and a program installed on a computer that processes the received psychodiagnostic data. In accordance with the psychodiagnostic purpose of each of the components of the apparatus complex, its use allows to conduct reactometry, labiliometry and tremormetry of the psychomotor praxis of thinking of children and adults, starting, as a rule, from the age of 5. Psychodiagnostic examination on the “Hyst” device is presented in Figure 1.

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Reactometry is carried out with a reactometer - a psychological device for measuring the time of a simple sensorimotor person to a light and sound stimulus signal. An important feature of the device is the measurement of the sensorimotor reaction of the subject both to the appearance and to the disappearance of the signal, which allows for a holistic assessment of the individual psychomotor pace of the subject. The device provides the possibility of choosing both a single signal and a series of 10 responses with separate calculation of the reaction of the right and left hand and leg. This provides a psychodiagnostic assessment of interhemispheric interaction and the presence of asymmetry of interhemispheric functioning and its severity. The obtained data are important for identifying the consequences of unconscious but existing craniocerebral injuries in the past, other dysfunctions of psychophysical development, which the examined person may not be aware of under certain conditions of his previous life.

As a rule, for the reliability of the obtained data, a series of 10 identical sound or light stimuli is used, which, after the completion of the last, 10th test, automatically displays the average result of the entire series on the monitor. Comparing the obtained reaction results, for example, with the right and left hand, with the results of reaction with the right and left leg allows, on the one hand, to identify the leading hand and leg, and on the other hand, the leading method of reaction: for example, natural defensive reactions - defending with hands, defending, attacking, or giving preference to the legs, fleeing from danger, defending with them, while giving preference to the leading leg.

For tremometry, which consists in measuring the parameters of dynamic hand tremors, a tremometer is used, which allows to draw a conclusion about the accuracy of the psychomotor praxis of thinking reflected in the movements, the resistance of the examined person to psychophysical loads, the coordination of the examined person’s psychomotor thinking, which is dominant in complex and complicated conditions life and activity compared to verbal-logical and figurative types of thinking activity. The tremometer allows you to accurately trace the interdependence of the time of passing the maze and the number of touches made. This dependence is inversely proportional: the shorter the time of passing the maze, the greater the number of touches. Conversely, the longer the maze, the smaller the number of touches.

In the case of detection of higher or significantly higher performance of virtual psychomotor skills of the examined person when working with a drawing than real psychomotor skills when working directly with the device, the ratio of psychomotor dependence of the main work to operations with a computer, i.e. with an electronic control panel, other machines, is found out mechanisms, devices and tools.

The labiliometer is a device for researching the lability of the nervous system, that is, conducting labiliometry, which allows you to measure the critical frequency of the fusion of light flashes, which is the main indicator of the lability of a person’s visual perception, a feature of his psychophysical status and the current psychophysiological state at the time of the psychological examination. The labiliometer contains buttons for selecting a color and transferring data to a computer, decreasing and increasing the frequency of green, yellow, and red LED flashes. Yes, the green LED turns on at a rate of 1 flash per second. When pressing and releasing the button, the person under examination gradually increases the frequency of flashes to the state when the discrimination of the flickering of the LED is completed. This will be the critical frequency of flashes for this colour, which is fixed by sending the received data to the computer by pressing the appropriate button, as a result of which the result appears on the monitor.

Results of Instrumental and Psychological Examinations

A psychological examination of 2,548 people was conducted, which included children and adults from 5 to 82 years of age, regardless of the state of mental health, including both self-actualized persons with high indicators of the quality of mental health, and persons with chronic mental disorders and various degrees of mental backwardness, made it possible to generalize the main indicators of the apparatus-psychological objectification of the main indicators of mental health, defined by us. The procedure of psychological examination of adults at their request is presented in Figure 2.

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Conclusion

Thus, the functional indicators of reactometry, labiliometry, and tremometry are the basic characteristics of individuality, activity, and the ability to self-regulate, which are the main indicators of the stability of a person’s mental health. To determine the individual psychophysical abilities and state of each person, the psychological equipment complex “His” is used, which summarizes the data obtained in the psychogram developed by us. The given indicators determine the quality category of mental health, which is an individual property of a person to ensure his own procedural integrity, adequate to his inner nature, in the interaction of a person with his own self and environment.

Such universal forms and patterns of mental self- organization of a person, which, being transformed during human life, are not lost have the greatest value. Increasing the quality of mental health, acquiring higher levels of it is a constant process of self-improvement, the basis of which is the integrity of knowing oneself and the world, mastering the abilities of self-regulation of one’s own mental activity, and self-realization as a self-sufficient embodiment of the meaning of one’s own life activity - one’s perceived purpose.