Resilience and tolerance to uncertainty among military journalists in new information and communication conditions

RELEVANCE. In the conditions of constant, constantly changing wars, hostilities and armed conflicts, the role of military journalists, or war correspondents, who broadcast to the whole world from the battlefield, transmit timely and high-quality information from battlefields. These are professionals who are subject to many demands in terms of psychological qualities, resilience and tolerance for uncertainty. A person who does not possess such qualities cannot perform this extremely dangerous and traumatic work. In addition, military journalists are under pressure in modern information and communications conditions, which makes their already difficult work more difficult. At the same time, at the moment there is very little research on the topic of what specific qualities and abilities war correspondents should have to successfully carry out their professional activities. The purpose of the study is to study the factors of resilience and tolerance of uncertainty among military journalists.

MATERIALS AND METHODS. An empirical study was conducted on the resilience and tolerance of uncertainty of 54 war correspondents and 50 journalists who are not involved in covering military events. We studied used the methods of “Vitality Test” by  D.A. Leontyev and E.I. Rasskazova and “Uncertainty Tolerance Scale” by T.V. Kornilova.

RESULT AND DISCUSSION. Statistically significant differences in indicators of resilience and tolerance to uncertainty were identified between groups of war correspondents and journalists, and significant relationships between indicators of resilience and tolerance to uncertainty in groups of war correspondents and journalists were identified and described.

CONCLUSION. The conducted research makes it possible to form a picture of what personal characteristics war correspondents have and to highlight those traits that help them cope with dangerous and stressful working conditions

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