PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS AND DYNAMICS OF EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTMENT OF ECONOMIC PROFESSIONALS IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR AND POST-WAR RECOVERY (REGIONAL ASPECT)

Abstract

In the conditions of a full-scale war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, economic specialists (accountants, economists, employees of state statistics agencies) perform a critically important function of ensuring the financial stability and information security of the state. However, their activities are accompanied by unprecedented psychological pressure, caused by a combination of high professional responsibility (fines, deadlines, data accuracy) and existential threats (shelling, occupation, energy crisis). The problem becomes especially acute in front-line regions, where professional stress is superimposed on the vital fear for life. Neglecting the psychological state of these specialists threatens to reduce the quality of management decisions and personnel collapse in the public sector. The purpose of the work is to identify the specifics, dynamics, and determinants of emotional burnout syndrome in economic service specialists under martial law (using the example of the Kherson region) and to develop a scientifically based model of its prevention. The article provides a comparative analysis of the stress factors of economists' work in rear and front-line regions. It was found that for specialists in the Kherson region, the key triggers of exhaustion are not the volume of work, but the logistical impossibility of its performance (lack of communication, destruction of primary documentation) and the conflict between the instinct of self-preservation and professional duty ("hyper-responsibility for the number"). The phenomenon of "double traumatization" of the team is described: for workers in the occupation/combat zone, the stressor is the threat to life, and for relocated workers, the " survivor syndrome" and a sense of guilt, which provokes compensatory workaholism. Using the example of the work of the State Administration during the occupation of 2022, the unique experience of preserving state registers and the psychological price paid by specialists for performing their professional duty underground are analyzed. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of implementing the developed recommendations in the activities of government institutions and private companies to preserve human resource potential in conditions of a protracted crisis.