Features of self-regulation of war correspondents

Aim. Identification of differences in self-regulation, hardiness and tolerance to uncertainty between war correspondents and journalists.

Methodology. The study was conducted on war correspondents and ordinary journalists. The group of war correspondents included 54 people, the group of journalists – 50 people. The age of the subjects varies from 23 to 55 years old. To obtain empirical data, the following were used: the questionnaire “Style of self-regulation of behavior” by V. I. Morosanova and I. N. Bondarenko, “Test of resilience” by D. A. Leontiev and E. I. Rasskazova, “Scale of tolerance to uncertainty” by T.V. Kornilova. In statistical data processing, the methods of primary data processing and descriptive statistics, correlation analysis using the Spearman correlation coefficient, and the Mann-Whitney U criterion were used. Statistical processing was carried out in the SPSS program, version 23.

 Results. As a result of the conducted work, statistically significant differences in indicators of self-regulation, resilience and tolerance to uncertainty were revealed between groups of war correspondents and journalists, women and men of military correspondents. Significant correlations between indicators of self-regulation and resilience and tolerance to uncertainty in groups of war correspondents, journalists, female war correspondents and male war correspondents have been identified and described.

 Research implications. The results show that war correspondents have distinctive features in self-regulation when compared with ordinary journalists who do not work in a combat zone, as well as distinctive features in resilience and tolerance to uncertainty, which allows us to identify the weaknesses and strengths of the psychological characteristics of military personnel and develop measures to correct them. The prospects for further research in the field of self-regulation, resilience and tolerance to uncertainty of war correspondents are presented.

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