Формирование экологического сознания личности

Abstract

This article describes the issues that suggests the people living in areas of ecological trouble, of prolonged traumatic experience, the psychological stress caused by exaggeration of the danger of radiation exposure and its health effects. The reasons for the long-term psychological stress on the results of the survey, experimental studies, are the existence of long-term radiation risk to human health, lack of financial status, information factor, low level of knowledge of the population about radiation and its associated biological, medical and other effects. The reasons for the long-term psychological stress on the results of the survey, a survey of respondents living in the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, are: subjective perception of information about radioactive contamination of territories and radiation exposure of the population, the existence of long-term radiation risk to human health. Analysis of the data showed that under the influence of adverse environmental factors there are changes in the structure of the individual, and there are the following personal characteristics such as anxiety, aggression, rigidity, which in turn violate the adaptation of human life. Damaging factors affect people not so much at once, but for a long time. Some authors believe that mental disorders that occur after an environmental radiation disaster are formed not only due to the direct or indirect action of physical factors, but also as a consequence of the inclusion of somatopsychic or psychosomatic mechanisms directly related to the impact of the disaster. The psychological consequences of nuclear weapons tests do not form a typical model of personality. The persons of the main group living in the conditions of radioecological stress had disturbed psychological protective mechanisms and there were States of despair, depression, confusion. Also violates the system of interpersonal relationships, there was a narrowing of the sphere of vital interests, a decrease of adaptive possibilities.

Key words: environmental factor, homeostasis, anxiety, psycho–emotional stress, socio – psychological tension, depression, nuclear tests, adaptive capabilities, environmental consciousness.