Psychological structure of resilience in medical personnel (on the example of the Center for AIDS Control and Prevention)

Rostova P.; Rylskaya E.; Pogorelov D.

doi:10.14529/jpps230401

P. A. Rostova Chelyabinsk Regional Center for Social Protection “Family” (19 a Rumyantseva str., Chelyabinsk, 454017, Russia) https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7774-2712 rostovapolina2@gmail.com
E. A. Rylskaya South Ural State University (76 ave. Lenin, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3075-5255 elena_rylskaya@mail.ru
D. N. Pogorelov South Ural State University (76 ave. Lenin, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4893-4334 pogorelovdn@mail.ru

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14529/jpps230401

Keywords: resilience, medical personnel, HIV infection, psychological structure of resilience, HIV treatment, HIV prevention

Abstract

Background. Medical personnel need high resilience to perform their duties. However, studies about resilience in medical personnel who work with AIDS patients are scarce. There is a disparity between the demand for programs aimed at improving and maintaining resilience in medical workers and the absence of related studies that lay the foundations for such programs. Aims: to identify a set of structural relations between the resilience and professional qualities of medical personnel at the Center for AIDS Control and Prevention. Materials and methods. The study included 89 people (57 women and 32 men between the ages of 25 and 60) from the Regional Center for AIDS and Infectious Diseases Control and Prevention. The following tests and questionnaires were used in the study: the “Human Resilience” test (E. Rylskaya), a method for estimating empathy (I. Yusupov), “Self-assessment of Resistance to Stress” (S. Couchen, G. Willianson), the “Level of Sociability” questionnaire (V. Ryakhovsky), the Eysenck Neuroticism Scale, the Wonderlic personnel test, and the “Altruism” questionnaire (N. Fetiskin, V. Kozlov, G. Manuilov). The results obtained were processed with descriptive statistics, the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, the Kruskal–Wallis H test, the Mann–Whitney U test, the Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients, and factor analysis in the SPSS Statistics software (v. 20). Results. Key factors represented by professionally important qualities that play an important role in the psychological structure of medical personnel were identified and included empathic abilities, socio-psychological competence and stability, and altruistic orientation. Conclusion. The psychological structure of resilience among medical personnel from the Center for AIDS control and prevention is determined by the relationship between resilience and professionally important qualities. Certain correlates of resilience can act as its factors. The results obtained can be used for training programs aimed at both developing professionally important qualities and maintaining the resilience of medical personnel working with HIV patients.

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Author Biographies

P. A. Rostova , Chelyabinsk Regional Center for Social Protection “Family” (19 a Rumyantseva str., Chelyabinsk, 454017, Russia)

psychologist

E. A. Rylskaya , South Ural State University (76 ave. Lenin, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia)

Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology of Management and Performance

D. N. Pogorelov , South Ural State University (76 ave. Lenin, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia)

Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of General Psychology, Psychodiagnostics and Psychological Counseling

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