Moral and Psychological Support of the State Defense Forces: Socio-Cognitive Dimension
Author`s Contribution:
- Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine
Background and aim of study:
Current research on the current complex of threats to
national security in all spheres of modern society
necessitates the adjustment of theory and practice of
construction and reform of the domestic security and
defense sector, in which the moral and psychological
support of professional activities of defense personnel.
Of particular importance for solving problems are the
requirements of complex system thinking in the context
of post-neoclassical rationality for interdisciplinary
analysis of the basic structural components of moral
and psychological support for the training and use of
security and defense sector.
Results:
Theoretical and practical potential of the socio-
cognitive constructivist direction of studying the moral
behavior of a military specialist, allows to form a
special dimension of the subject-professional, where
special attention, memory, thinking, decision-making
and professional actions that systematically create
knowledge and competence, skills and abilities for
proper readiness to reliably and guaranteed perform the
tasks assigned to a certain power component of the
security and defense sector of the modern country.
Modern analysis of the problems of moral and
psychological support for the training and use of force
components of the security and defense sector of
Ukraine requires the use of the cognitive dimension of
research of a professional who directly implements and
protects vital interests of citizens, society and state.
Given some properties of cognitive networks, the
analysis of cognitive processes is not only combined
with existing concepts in cognitive science and
epistemology (cognitive niche, cognitive map,
cognitive coherence), but adds new aspects to the
understanding of subjectivity in all spheres of human
life. Special research needs “schemes” – cognitive
structures through which a professional subject
perceives, interprets, organizes and uses information.
The main importance of schemes of formation of own
system for identification of priority for the subject-
professional components of environment and at the
same time, ignoring others. The need to adjust the
approaches, forms and methods of modern states to
implement their own security and defense policy,
preparation and conduct of armed struggle requires the
use of interdisciplinary approach to analyze the socio-
cultural preconditions for the formation of an adequate model of moral and psychological support of the
defense forces. Conceptualization of basic socio-
cultural principles of professional training and
formation of a military professional allows to
constantly clarify the social and cognitive dimensions
of institutionalization of the innovative model of the
military education system, which allow to create a
relevant and effective set of knowledge and
competencies, skills and abilities. entrusted to the
personnel of the security forces of the security and
defense sector of the modern country.
Moral and psychological support of the functionality of
military specialists should be considered a complex
human activity for the accumulation and
implementation of personal innovations at three
logically related levels: worldview-axiological,
cognitive-reflexive and praxeological, which allow
effective influence of information-organizational,
psychological,
social-pedagogical
cultural
and
educational tools for the consciousness and psyche of
servicemen. Problems of formation and development of
scientific and informational support of moral and
psychological support of professional activity of
personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are
interdisciplinary, therefore, their solution should be
based on the concept and strategy of building and
protecting information society, “knowledge society”
and smart society. Dominated by complex socio-
cultural, political, economic, technical structures that
require for their functioning and development of
effective interaction of components of convergent
nano-, bio-, info-, cognitive (NBIC) technologies.
Conclusion:
Attempts to reform certain parts and components of the
security and defense sector in the past, testify to their
non-systemic and mostly declarative recognition of the
importance of patriotic and professional moral and
psychological condition of the personnel of the security
and defense forces. Further studies of the peculiarities
of the system of moral and psychological support of the
power components of the security and defense sector
may prove that only interdisciplinary implementation
of measuring the degree of formation of spiritual
values and professionally necessary psychological
qualities of the sector on the basis of national
monitoring system, other specialists – allow to
introduce an effective mechanism of counteraction to
purposeful demoralizing factors in modern hybrid war.
DOI and UDC:
UDC: 159:37.091.2:378.6:355(477)
DOI: 10.26697/ijes.2020.4.18
Information about the authors:
Babak Serhiy Anatoliyovych – Doctor of Philosophy
in Military Science, Senior Researcher, Head of the
Department of Military Training, Kharkiv National
University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.
Research interests: pedagogy, military education;
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-454X
Krut Petro Pavlovych – Doctor of Philosophy in
Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor
of the Department of Military Training, Kharkiv
National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine.
Research interests: psychology, philosophy, pedagogy;
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4554-7870