IMPROVED METHODOLOGY FOR CREATING A MILITARY SPECIALTIES PROFILE FOR PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF SERVICE (LABOUR) ACTIVITIES IN THE MILITARY DOMAIN
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko national University of Kyiv, Kalnysh V.V. , Loza V.M. ,   Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Makarchuk M.Yu. ,   Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Nikiforov M.M. ,   Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Pampukha I.V. ,   Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Popkov B.O. ,   Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Filimonova N.B. ,   Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Published: January 2023

The necessity to define the specific psychophysiological, mental and physical features of military personnel needed for certain service activities, is stipulated by the fact that there is a need for a quick selection of military specialists capable of performing the assigned missions, a definition of military personnel's professional suitability to perform combat assignments, etc., during the martial law. In addition to the inherent abilities, such as musical, mathematical and other abilities, person's capabilities are limited by the inherent qualities of the central nervous system. Training of some features is limited and possible only to a certain extent. The inherent qualities of the central nervous system stipulate the efficiency of a person's professional activity, depending on the range of individual and typical qualities and functional state of the central nervous system, and also on personal features, which ensure coordination of psychophysiological manifestations of the functional state, its qualitative originality. According to the acting regulatory and legal documents regulating the personnel policy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "human capital of the Armed Forces is a set of abilities, personal traits and motivations formed and developed in the course of corresponding training and possessed by the personnel, which are used in the official duties, contribute to the growth of professional competence and thereby impact the level of combat readiness of troops". It means selecting the candidates who are best qualified for a given military speciality by their psychophysiological characteristics. The relevance of the research is conditioned by the fact that there is a high dynamic of re-equipping structural units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with advanced weapons and military equipment and present-day requirements to the military personnel as a whole. It demands a continuous improvement of the psychophysiological support system for service (labour) activities in the military domain. This is a complex multicomponent system requiring the involvement of different specialists for implementation. The article presents the upgrading of the system based on the improvement of the methodology for creating a military specialities profile using a modified modular system of original computerized psychodiagnostic tests which combines both quantity determination of the psychophysiological and cognitive functions’ efficiency and electroencephalographic and electrocardiographic tests helping to define human brain neuro networks involved in performing some functions and to evaluate the difficulty level of performing some tests. The given modification enables to raise the efficiency and reliability of evaluation of the inherent complex indicators of the military (employee) central nervous system needed for the elaboration and application of technologies for the development of professionally critical features and their functional state. Moreover, in addition to the evaluation of the inherent psychophysiological and cognitive capabilities, it is essential to foresee and consider a series of external and internal factors of the service (labour) environment, researched in detail and described in the article. These factors will supplement and specify the requirements for the organism of a person serving in certain conditions of the external and internal environment and with a particular regime of the service (labour) activity and rest.