DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS A FACTOR FOR STRENGTHENING THE MENTAL HEALTH AND ADAPTATION OF STUDENTS IN THE CRISIS CONDITIONS OF THE STATE OF WAR: THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROBLEM

Abstract

 The relevance and practical significance of the raised problem is determined by the deterioration of the mental health of the Ukrainian population, in particular the student youth, under the conditions of the introduction of martial law in Ukraine in 2022. Overcoming this problem requires finding effective tools. One of them is the formation of emotional intelligence.

The purpose of the study is to provide a scientific and theoretical basis for the potential development of emotional intelligence among student youth as a factor in maintaining their mental health and adapting to crisis situations caused by military actions in Ukraine.

Research methods: heuristic-search (for systematization and analysis of scientific sources on the problem in question); analysis and synthesis (for the breakdown and division of processes and phenomena of the formation of emotional intelligence and the combination of disparate data to display the object of research as a whole); content analysis, discourse analysis (for the study of certain aspects of the studied phenomena from the standpoint of scientific discourse).

The results of the research consist in the development of a complex model of the formation of emotional intelligence of student youth in crisis situations. It synthesizes four main theoretical concepts: the first defines emotional intelligence as a cognitive ability aimed at processing information through the prism of emotional perception; the second characterizes emotional intelligence as a person's ability to recognize and understand their own and other people's emotions, intentions, desires, as well as manage them; the third - structures emotional intelligence as levels of a person's possession of 15 abilities; the fourth concerns the combination of personal and interpersonal components in the structure of emotional intelligence,

Conclusions: scientific and theoretical substantiation of the raised problem made it possible to put forward a hypothesis according to which the formation of the emotional intelligence of student youth, in particular, its four components (informational; adaptive behavior; self-control; empathy) can become an effective factor in preserving their mental health and adapting to crisis situations.