PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION SHIFT WORKERS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF METEOREACTION IN ARCTIC REGION CONDITIONS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the definition of the psychological characteristics of oil and gas shift workers with high and low levels at meteoreaction in the Arctic. The oil and gas employees in conditions of the Far North and the Arctic are most likely to develop painful meteosensitivity. At the same time, the severity of it is caused by not only natural environmental factors, but also the person's psychological qualities and characteristics. The study was conducted as the scientific expedition, in which 70 oil and gas workers in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug participated from March to April 2015 (shift duration - 30 days), their age - from 24 to 60 years (mean age 38.46 ± 1.410). The study was conducted through questionnaires, psychological tests. Statistical analysis was performed using the methods of descriptive statistics and stepwise discriminant analysis. Processing was carried out using SPSS 22.00 software package. The study revealed that employees of oil and gas companies with a high level of situational meteoreaction had hyperthymic and excitable types of character accentuations, high level expression of constructive external self-limiting and constructive sexuality, as well as a low level of expression of the destructive and deficiency aggression, deficit anxiety, destructive inner self-limitation, destructive narcissism and sexuality.

Keywords

• meteosensitivity
• meteoreaction
• accentuation of personality traits
• psychological characteristics
• shift work
• oil and gas producers
• arctic region