ANXIETY OF DOCTORS-TEACHERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS A RISK FACTOR FOR PROFESSIONAL DISADAPTATION

• Natalia V. Kozina
• Anna V. Lakomskaya
• Anastasiya A. Biryulina

Abstract

Professional adaptation characteristics are an important aspect of every medical worker activity. The ability to withstand various professional stress factors, maintaining a stable emotional background and using adaptive forms of behavior, allows a physician to be professionally successful, providing assistance to a patient in today’s difficult conditions. Of particular interest is the consideration of this problem by specialists who combine the activities of a physician and a teacher at a higher medical educational institution. The need to combine different professional models requires flexible adaptation in different work situations, maintaining a stable emotional state, and confidence in one’s own professionalism. The presence of a state of severe anxiety can be considered as a predictor of professional maladaptation.

Research results of medical university teachers are presented in this article. Data analysis showed that specialists with severe anxiety are characterized by: concentration on negative aspects of professional activity, emotional experiences, low assessment of life quality, tendency to develop addictions. In general, these specialists can be characterized as a risk group susceptible to professional maladaptation.

The data obtained indicate the need to develop organizational and psycho-preventive measures aimed at increasing the adaptive capabilities of this contingent, as well as further study of this issue.

Keywords: anxiety; doctors-teachers; professional disadaptation; addiction tendency

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