The Psychological Adaptation Features of Shift Personnel in the Far North

Fly-in-fl y-out personnel in the Far North are exposed to extreme climatic, geographic, and production factors, and also remain in conditions of group isolation, which makes demands on fl y-in-fl y-out worker’ body that oft en exceed its reserves. Th e full adaptation impossibility is associated with unfavorable functional states of workers, which lead to a decrease in the level of mental health, productivity and work effi ciency. Job tasks of workers in various industries diff er in physical and physiological stress and in the degree of harmful production factors expression. Th e purpose of this study is to identify and describe the psychological adaptation features in fl y-in-fl y-out personnel in industrial enterprises of the Far North. Th e study involved 145 fl y-in-fl y-out workers of oil, gas, and diamond mining industries in the Far North, 82 fl y-in-fl y-out builders in the south of the Russian Federation, who were a comparison group to identify the psychological adaptation features of fl y-in-fl y-out personnel in the Far North. Research methods are psychophysiological and psychological testing aimed at diagnosing conscious self-regulation of voluntary human activity and subjective control as key characteristics of psychological adaptation of workers. Th e results obtained allow us to conclude about the similarity of psychological characteristics that contribute to the successful adaptation of fl yin-fl y-out personnel, regardless of the region where the industrial facility is located. Th ese include internality in the areas of achievement, failure, family relationships, health and illness, as well as modeling, performance evaluation, and autonomy as regulatory processes. At the same time, their expression is specifi c, depending on the region of the object location and the industry.