Prykhodko, I., Matsehora, Y., Kolesnichenko, O., Prikhodko, A., Bolshakova, A., Bilyk, O., … Slurdenko, D. (2025). Army Values of the Ukrainian Soldier: Its Contents and Its Assessment by Combatants. Journal of Military Ethics, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2025.2468015

Abstract. Army values are the corporate values of the military organization, which guide military personnel, helping them fulfill their military duty to protect national interests, and maintain the security and defense of their state. This article explores ideas about army values and their content among Ukrainian combatants. The army values that ensure the unity of Ukrainian military personnel around their chosen profession and the performance of military duty are moral and physical courage, professionalism, self-discipline, honesty, loyalty, teamwork, dignity, and fortitude. Proponents of a “corporate” military ethics prefer army values that allow for consolidating military personnel around these values, ensuring a sense of belonging to their military organization and their value base. Proponents of an “individual” military ethics are guided by army values based on personal courage and responsibility. The results of our study about army values and their structure will allow us to form and improve the military culture of military personnel, as well as their professional competence and readiness to perform their duties both in peacetime and – at the time of writing – during combat operations.

Keywords:  Military personnelarmy valuesmilitary ethics stylesUkraine

 

Ihor Prykhodko, Yanina Matsehora, Oleksander Kolesnichenko, Maksim Baida, Oleksandr Vasylkovskyi (2023). The Psychological Recovery Program of Ukrainian Military Personnel after Completing Combat Missions In the Russian-Ukrainian War Československб psychologie 2023 / ročnнk LXVII / čнslo 6 DOI: 10.51561/cspsych.67.5.457

Objectives. With the start of the Russian-Ukrainian War, the Ukrainian military personnel are experiencing combat stress. Manifestations of acute stress reactions and post-traumatic stress symptoms require psychological assistance and recovery of the soldiers’ personal resources. This study aims to develop a psychological recovery program “Invincibility Program” for Ukrainian military personnel after performing combat missions to relieve the effects of chronic combat stress and to evaluate its effectiveness. 
Sample and settings. 1090 Ukrainian military personnel took part in the study, which had combat experience after February 24, 2022.
Hypothesis. The psychological recovery program will help to reduce the effects of combat stress on military personnel. 
Statistical analyses. The statistical analysis of the study results was carried out using the program SPSS 20.0. 
Results. The activities of the program led to an improvement in the mental state and positively significant changes in the well-being of the participants, the mobilization of psychological resources, and an increase in the resistance of soldiers to combat stress. A high level of subjective usefulness of the program was revealed. Limitations. This study was limited by not having an active comparison condition and by not having a longitudinal follow-up.
Keywords: posttraumatic stress, psychological recovery program, combatants, combat missions, Russian-Ukrainian War

HrynzovskyiА. М., Kalashchenko, S. I., Prykhodko, I. I., Lutsak, O. O., & Bielai, S. V. (2023). The Role of Psychological Selection of Applicants for Higher Education in Dangerous Professions. Clinical and Preventive Medicine, (7), 81-86. https://doi.org/10.31612/2616-4868.7.2023.11

The aim of the study. It was compared the adaptive potential and readiness to perform professional duties among the medical students and cadets of NANGU.
Materials and methods. There were 134 respondents, who took part in a survey which was based on «Adaptability» questionnaire by A. Maklakov. The total time of the survey was thirty minutes. The criteria included respondents at the age from 18-30 and their regular physical activity for at least three times a week. The criteria included respondents at the age from 18-30 and their regular physical activity for at least three times a week. Among the exclusion criteria were duty or night shift in the hospital, taking psychotropic drugs, acute respiratory viral diseases during the survey period.
Results and discussion. Average indices of NANGU cadets belong to the third group of human adaptive abilities (satisfactory abilities), meanwhile the medical students show the prevailing indices of the fourth group (unsatisfactory abilities). Medical students demonstrate lower indices of neuropsychological stability (28,13±12,97 c.u.), comparing to cadets (13,29±9,01 c.u.; t1-2 = 6,87, at p  0,001). The group of medical students demonstrates worse indices on all scales of the «Adaptability» questionnaire, except for the «Probability» scale, comparing to the group of NANGU cadets. It is worth mentioning that medical students reveal greater self-criticism, introversion, they tend to self-reflection that hinders the process of secondary adaptation in society and reduces resistance to stressful conditions.
Conclusions. It indicates a poor adaptation to the requirements of professional activity and determines the need to conduct mandatory psychological selection among medical students during admission to an educational institution. In the future, the level and development of adaptive capabilities of young professionals among students might become one of the main reasons for their change of professional area and subsequently might lead to significant loss of state economic resources which were spent on their training.
Keywords: students, emergency situation, adaptation, stressful sustainability, educational institution