Psychological Aspects of Destructive Information-Psychological Influence

• Main Authors: Stolyarenko A.M., Serdyuk N.V., Vakhnina V.V., Boeva O.M.
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education 2019-12-01
• Series: Психология и право
• Subjects: information and psychological influence; personality; employee of internal affairs bodies; information security; information and psychological opposition
• Online Access: https://psyjournals.ru/en/psyandlaw/2019/n4/Stolyarenko_Serduk_Vakhnina.shtml

The article exposes the identity of the destructive psychological influence on the personality and offers directions and methods of information-psychological counteraction. One of the areas of psychological practice is being studied - counteraction to informational psychological influence. The most effective methods and practices of counteracting negative information-psychological influence are highlighted. The specific features of counteracting the destructive information-psychological influence, the features of timely psychodiagnostics and the development of effective countermeasures are described. The relevance of the study of this area of psychological work is imposed by the need on the one hand in assessing the quality of psychological protection of employees of internal affairs bodies, and on the other, in searching and stimulating intraorganizational and intrapersonal psychological resources, which necessitates the development of theoretical, methodological and conceptual approaches to the implementation of approaches to protect personnel from negative psychological information influence. The authors consider the destructive informational and psychological influence as one of the most serious problems of modern society, which threatens the psychological safety of not only employees of the internal affairs bodies, but also citizens, entails significant losses, and has a strong psychological effect.