FEATURES OF PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT DEPENDING ON THE MECHANISMS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROTECTION OF THE PERSON

Abstract

This article is devoted to the theoretical and practical analysis of the problem of studying professional burnout and the role of psychological defense mechanisms of the individual. The essence of the phenomenon of professional burnout in the psychological literature is characterized. The symptoms and determinants of professional burnout of the individual are analyzed. It is emphasized that professional burnout of specialists is characterized by a pronounced set of symptoms of disturbance in the mental, somatic and social spheres of a person's life. Symptoms of the "professional burnout" syndrome can vary from mild behavioral reactions to psychosomatic and neurotic disorders, and signs of burnout can differ individually in individual individuals. Modern approaches to the interpretation of the mechanisms of psychological protection of the individual are studied and substantiated. It is emphasized that psychological protection mechanisms and coping behavior are considered as the most important forms of adaptation processes and the individual's response to stressful situations, which complement each other. The methodological foundations of empirical research on professional burnout and mechanisms of psychological protection of the individual are analyzed: studying the features of psychological burnout and emotional burnout, determining the lifestyle index, diagnosing the dominant strategy of psychological protection in communication and the level of social frustration. This psychodiagnostic complex of techniques corresponds to the specifics of the phenomenon under study and allows us to reveal various aspects of studying the features of professional burnout depending on the mechanisms of psychological protection of the individual. The organization of the empirical study and the results of psychodiagnostics of the features of professional burnout depending on the mechanisms of psychological protection of the individual are analyzed: determination of the features of the level of manifestation of emotional burnout of teachers; analysis of the formation of symptoms of emotional burnout in teachers, characteristics of the dominant mechanisms of psychological defense in teachers and their relationship with professional burnout, analysis of the dominant strategy of psychological defense in teachers' communication, characteristics of the level of social frustration in teachers.