The professional activity in shifts in the Arctic contributes to the development of unfavorable functional status and destructive personal qualities of workers, which leads to a decrease in the level of mental health and efficiency of labor activity. The reference to the risk-oriented approach is conditioned by the need to predict the professional efficiency of shift personnel. The purpose of this study is to determine the psychological risks of oil and gas workers with a shift work organization in the Arctic. The study involved 70 oil and gas workers. The research methods were used as follows: documentation study, work process monitoring, questionnaire survey, psychophysiological and psychological testing, and statistical analysis methods: descriptive statistics—conjugacy tables with calculation of Pearson’s criterion, two-stage cluster, dispersion, and discriminant analyzes. As a result of this research, it was established that oil and gas workers characterized by different combinations of character accentuations would have different psychological risks, and, consequently, different approaches to their psychological support are needed.
The article is devoted to determination of the personal recourses of oil and gas workers to overcome the negative impact of Arctic climate and geographical conditions. The study was carried out as a scientific expedition, with a participation of 70 oil and gas workers of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug from March to April 2015 (rotation shift duration - 30 days), aged from 24 to 60 years (average age 38.46 ± 1.410) The study was conducted through questionnaires, psychological tests. Statistical analysis was performed using the methods of descriptive statistics and discriminative analysis. Data processing was carried out using SPSS 22.00 software package. The study revealed the prevailing regulatory processes and mechanisms of psychological protection (as parameters of personal resources) for shift workers with low and high levels of situational and subjective meteoreaction in the Arctic. Workers with a low level of situational meteoreaction have an average level of programming and high-level of results assessment as the regulatory processes, the low level of psychological defense mechanisms - projection and regression, higher values - suppression, compensation and replacement. Specialists with low subjective meteoreaction are characterized by a higher level of programming as the regulatory process, a low level of psychological defense mechanism - compensation and high values - projection and rationalization.
(1) Background: the research purpose is to identify and describe the stress and working capacity dynamics of oil and gas fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) workers in the Arctic during the fly-in period using biochemical, psychophysiological and psychological methods with further analysis of the relationship between them using objective, subjective and projective indicators. (2) Methods: The research involved 70 oil and gas FIFO specialists in the Arctic. The study of stress and working capacity was carried out using biochemical (saliva analysis for cortisol), psychophysiological (complex visual–motor reaction and variational cardiointervalometry) and psychological (questionnaire “Well-being. Activity. Mood”, M. Luscher’s color test and the subjective control level methods. (3) Results: There is a similarity in the dynamic curves of oil and gas FIFO employees’ stress and working objective, subjective and projective indicators during the fly-in period. The maximum relationships number was obtained between objective cortisol indicators in saliva (stress), complex visual–motor response indicators (operator working capacity), variational cardiointervalometry (functionality level), and interpretation coefficients (working capacity, stress, vegetative balance) according to M. Luscher’s test. (4) Conclusions: The obtained results made it possible to explain the mechanisms underlying the previously developed FIFO workers’ adaptation strategies classification, in which emergency and economic adaptation strategies were identified.
The purpose of the study: to identify the features of psychological safety of specialists in shift work organization in the North and South of the Russian Federation. Samples: 1) 68 shift workers of diamond production in the Far North at the age of 26 to 59 years, the experience of the shift method in the North from 1 to 30 years; 2) 82 shift workers employed in the construction of the Crimean bridge, aged 21 to 64 years , the experience of the shift method in the South from 1 to 20 years. Methods of research: 1) psycho-physiological level of psychological safetya "Complex visual-motor reaction" and "Variation cardiointervalography" made using the device of psychophysiological testing UPFT-1/30 "Physiologist"; 2) psychological level of color test M. lusher with the calculation of interpretation coefficients G. A. Amineva; 3) the image of the object of labour and subject of labourquestionnaire; 4) the image of the subject-object and subject-subject relations -"Express-method" for the study of socio-psychological climate in labor collective O. S. Michaluk and A. Yu. Shalyto. Statistical methods: two-stage cluster analysis, multivariate variance analysis, contingency tables. Statistical data processing was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 23.00 statistical package. Comparing with the model of psychological safety of workers of diamond production and builders of the Crimean bridge, such components as psychological and psychophysiological levels of the functional status, the components of the image of the object of labor and the image of the subject of labor, as well as the image of the subject-object and subjective relations coincide. It is established that in the South the emergency adaptation strategy is used to a greater extent (81.9%) than in the Far North (54.2%), which poses the risk of depletion of internal reserves by the end of the shift. There are differences in the psychophysiological level of functional status: in the South, more employees have a reduced level of functional status (62.9%) than in the North (44.4%). this tells us that employees of the Far North have a higher level of functionality than employees of the South. According to the image of the object of labor there is a positive trend, both in the South (71.8%) and in the Far North (76.1%), workers give low and undifferentiated hazard assessment, this means that workers do not see a special danger of dangerous situations in the shift period. Regarding the image of the subject of labor, it should be noted that in the Far North (63.1%) and in the South (94.8%) give a higher assessment of their professionalism. The component image of subject-object and subject-subject relations, as in the Far North (43.1%) and in the South (41.8%) workers give a positive assessment.
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