STUDY OF STUDENT’S YOUTH ANXIETY DURING THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR

Abstract

Anxiety is a reflection of an emotional state or a set of reactions that occur in a person who perceives the situation as personally dangerous; it is characterized by subjective feelings of tension, worries, gloomy anticipation, and activation of the autonomic nervous system. The main functions of anxiety are signaling, stimulation, and adaptation. Anxiety has three forms of expression: physiological, psychological, and behavioral. Anxiety as a process of developing the set of symptoms has the following stages: feeling of inner tension, reactions of hyperesthesia, a sense of incomprehensible danger, fear, a sense of the inevitability of impending catastrophe, excitement of anxiety, and timidity. Studentship is a sensitive period for the development of main human sociogenic potency. The state of the heightened anxiety has a negative impact on the success of young people’s educational activities. The display of the medium level of student’s youth anxiety was diagnosed, which is determined by the manifestation of psychological symptoms of the studied phenomenon. The display of the lowest level of physiological symptoms of student’s youth anxiety was recorded. The authors’ recommendations and techniques of modern practicing specialists in the field of psychology are described, aiming to help students cope with the symptoms of anxiety during the Russian-Ukrainian war