PECULIARITIES OF SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF DISPLACED PERSONS TO NEW LIVING CONDITIONS AS A RESULT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE

The purpose of the work is to investigate the peculiarities of the social and psychological adaptation of displaced persons (internally displaced persons and refugees) of the Russian-Ukrainian war to new socio-cultural living conditions.Materials and methods. The research was conducted between 2022 and 2024. It involved 574 displaced persons, who were divided into two groups: the experimental group (EG), which included internally displaced persons in Ukrainian communities (n = 312), and the control group (CG), which included refugees who migrated abroad (n = 262). Four psycho-diagnostic methods were used to investigate the peculiarities of the social and psychological adaptation of displaced persons.Results. It was found that the following indicators play a leading role in the profile of internally displaced persons of the EG in terms of their social and psychological adaptation to new living conditions: adaptability, self-acceptance, acceptance of others, emotional comfort, internality, and dominance. In contrast, the adaptation of the CG refugees is significantly influenced by such indicators as inclusion expressed, openness, internality, autonomous decision-making, readiness for new relationships, trust in the new environment, and tolerance.Conclusions. It has been found that the social and psychological adaptation of displaced persons to the new social and cultural environment depends on the effectiveness of social support and psychological assistance aimed at fostering internality, determination, personal responsibility, tolerance to representatives of the host country, harmonization of self-acceptance, and rejection of unproductive tendencies to escapism.