SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF COMBAT STRESS ON MILITARY PERSONNEL PARTICIPATING IN COMBAT OPERATIONS

The article explores contemporary scientific approaches to studying and understanding the combat stress environment and its key factors, significantly impacting military staff participating in combat actions and afterward in their civilian life. It highlights and provides evidence for the socio-psychological effects of combat stress on military personnel engaged in combat operations. Furthermore, the article analyzes the key factors of the combat environment and expands the interpretation of the combat stress concept, taking into account the realities of today. The article aims to clarify the list of the leading modern theoretical and methodological approaches to studying "combat stress" and to identify and substantiate the socio-psychological consequences that arise in veterans returning to peaceful life in the present-day realities.