THE DEVELOPMENT OF HARDINESS AND ADAPTIVE POTENTIAL IN RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUALS UNDER CRISIS CONDITIONS: THE EXPERIENCE OF IMPLEMENTING AN INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOCORRECTIONAL PROGRAM
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https://doi.org/10.32782/cusu-psy-2025-4-13Keywords:
psychological health, adaptability, resilience, Protestant communities, formative experiment, spiritual-psychological programAbstract
The article presents the results of a formative experiment aimed at empirically verifying the effectiveness of the Program for the Harmonization of Psychological Health among members of Protestant communities in Ukraine. The experiment was designed according to the classical two-group randomized plan with pre- and post-testing, involving 264 respondents – representatives of evangelical churches in Odesa and Mykolaiv. The Program lasted two months and included two spiritual-psychological retreats combined with subsequent individual and group support. Diagnostic assessments were conducted based on indicators of behavioral regulation, communicative potential, suicidal risk, and resilience, using the Mann–Whitney U test to determine the statistical significance of the results. Statistically significant positive changes were identified across all key parameters of adaptability among participants in the experimental group: an increase in behavioral regulation (U = 10640.0; p < 0.01), enhancement of communicative potential (U = 11902.0; p < 0.01), a reduction in suicidal risk (U = 5841.0; p < 0.01), and growth in resilience levels (U = 10767.5; p < 0.01). These findings confirm the effectiveness of the author’s Program as an integrative psychocorrective mechanism that promotes internal harmony, activates self-regulatory resources, and strengthens psychological stability under conditions of social transformation. It is concluded that the Program can be considered an innovative tool for psychological support and rehabilitation of religious communities, contributing to the enhancement of psychological health during wartime and post-war recovery in Ukrainian society.
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