Keywords
mental states
reflection of activity
metacognitive control
responsibility
cognitive resources
Abstract
Introduction. The article explores the cognitive resources of the psychoemotional "response" to the difficult living conditions of the Covid–19 pandemic period (DLC). DLC is defined as the challenges of a global existential crisis that reflected in the image of the human world, in which a person experiences the limitations of subjective activity and self-realization in the main aspects of being: personal, environmental and socio-psychological. Cognitive resources in the context of DLC are considered as a set of certain aspects of the cognitive sphere, the mobilization of which determines the formation of programs and strategies in the mind of the subject aimed at ensuring personal adaptation in difficult living conditions. Objective: identify the cognitive resources of a psychoemotional "response" to difficult living conditions using the method of comparative analysis. Methods. The study involved 112 respondents - civil aviation pilots and medical workers. We used the “Anxiety and Depression” questionnaire (Spielberger), the test for assessing the motivational orientation of the individual (Kuhl), the “Assessing personality reflexivity” questionnaire (Karpov, Ponomareva), and the “Multidimensional-functional diagnostics of responsibility” technique (Pryadein). Results. According to the criterion of stability of mental states, two groups of subjects were identified: equilibrium (85 people; n1) and nonequilibrium (27 people; n2). An invariant component of cognitive resources has been established: reflection of activity. Specific resources have identified. In group n1 there were five factors (77.34%): reflection of activity (33.26%); cognitive responsibility (13.34%); metacognitive control of failure activities (12.68%); responsible metacognitive control of planning activities (9.72%); metacognitive control of failure of retrospective and prospective activities (8.33%). The lack of cognitive resource provision in group n2 is due to three factors (70.30%): control of failure and self-centered responsibility (32.33%); cognitive awareness (23.15%); metacognitive control of activity planning and its success was based on reflection of retrospective activity and communication (14.82%). Specific cognitive resources for civil aviation pilots and medical workers are also highlighted. Discussion. The study made it possible to determine the factors of cognitive resource support for stable and nonequilibrium psycho-emotional states, which contributes to the verification of the concepts of semantic regulation of mental states, metacognitive, resource, subject-resource approaches in modern times.
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