INFORMATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY OF A PERSON UNDER CONDITIONS OF A PANDEMIC

Abstract

The article reveals a problem of ensuring information and psychological security of an individual in conditions of a pandemic. Pandemic is one of the socio-psychological factors that provokes panic, acutes stress and post-traumatic stress disorder, mass aggression, and other violations of the behavioral reactions of society. The negative impact of the pandemic is associated with the informational impact on a person at a time when deep layers of the psyche, which cannot be rationally controlled, are actualized in his psyche. Although not much time has passed and the threat of the pandemic has not yet receded, there is a need for a comprehensive analysis of information strategies that have increased or de-actualized the feelings of uncertainty and vital threat that have arisen in society. In this work, psychological defenses and coping strategies, forms of aggression and hostility that are relevant during the pandemic are considered. The Russian-language Internet content of April 2020 – May 2021, affecting problems of the COVID-19 pandemic, is evaluated from the point of view of social and information security. Society in conditions of a pandemic needs psychological protection and models of adaptive behavior and directives. Specialists in the field of information and psychological security, state and municipal employees, students and postgraduates, can use the results of the study.