PSYCHOMOTOR DEPRIVATION AND ITS MANIFESTATION AMONG EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH WORKERS
Authors:   Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, Terletska Yuliana 
Published: May 2022

The subject of the study is human psychomotor deprivation. The purpose of this study is to reveal the essence of psychomotor deprivation and the nature of its manifestation among educational research workers, including depending on their age and length of teaching experience. The methodology of the research consists of the use of psychoenergetical and energy-psychofunctional approaches, as well as the author’s «Methodology for determining psychomotor deprivation among adults» for conducting an empirical study. According to the specified approaches, psychomotor deprivation is proven to be to a lesser or greater degree a destructive process in the functioning of various spheres of the human psyche, resulting from the minimization, restriction or absence of psychomotor activity over a long period of time. It arises and evolves on the basis of underdevelopment, destruction or absence (lack of formation) of certain mental parameters of the cognitive, motivational, volitional, emotional and active-executive spheres of the psyche. The empirical study was conducted on a sample of 308 educational research workers of Ukrainian universities. In terms of age, the sample included educational research employees from 23 to 77 years old, whose length of teaching experience ranged from 1 to 49 years. The sample covered 7 sub-groups formed by the value of teaching experience length and age, each of which included 44 educational research employees. It was found that psychomotor deprivation among educational research employees at a high level of development is manifested in 59 (19.16%) people, at the level above the average in 75 (24.35%) people, at the average level in 90 (29.22%) people, below the average in 58 (18.83%) people, and at a low level in 26 (8.44%) people. In the subgroups of educational research employees, psychomotor deprivation, at a high level of development, is most evident in subgroup VII (more than 40 years of length of teaching experience, age over 65 years), above average in subgroup VI (34-40 years of length of teaching experience, age 58-65 years) and subgroup V (27-33 years of length of teaching experience, age 51-57 years), at the average level in subgroup IV (20-26 years of length of teaching experience, age 43-50 years), subgroup III (13-19 years of length of teaching experience, age 36-42 years), subgroup I (1-5 years of length of teaching experience, age 23-28 years) and subgroup II (6-12 years of length of teaching experience, age 29-35 years). It was found that the level of development of psychomotor deprivation among educational research workers grows with increasing age and length of teaching experience. This situation is a consequence of the fact that their professional activity does not require physical effort and motor activity in general, so over the years, on the one hand, as a result of significant load and even, overload, primarily at work, on the other as a result of sedentary way of life they pay less and less attention to physical education and physical labor, which leads to hypodynamia, loss and reduction of vitality, as well as the functionality of the cognitive, motivational, emotional, volitional and executive spheres of the psyche.