Proceedings of the II International Scientific-Practical Conference "Psychology of Extreme Professions" (ISPCPEP 2019)

Psychological representation of an emergency situation in the professional activity of railway employees

Authors
Darya Pyatun
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Darya Pyatun
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.40How to use a DOI?
Keywords
psychological space, the size of the psychological space, "simplicity-complexity", the structure of "one-dimensionality-multidimensionality", the importance of the elements, the typology of space, an emergency situation.
Abstract

The article discusses the phenomenon of “psychological space”, a brief theoretical analysis of the psychological space is conducted one of the methodological procedures for studying the features of the psychological space of emergency situations is tested. The empirical material was compiled on the basis of the structural unit of Russian Railways. The respondents were employees of the railway – station operators. The professional activity of the station operator is connected with a high responsibility for the safety of train traffic, for the safety of people using railways and employees subordinate to the station operator. The features of the psychological representation of an emergency situation are studied. The article presents the results of the research of psychological space. The data indicate that there are significant differences in the representation of a contingency situation by railway employees who have different “experience” of interacting with it.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the II International Scientific-Practical Conference "Psychology of Extreme Professions" (ISPCPEP 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-735-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.40How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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