Extreme condition and its effect on mental health of policy officers

Abstract

Human states in work activity are classified according to duration, leading component, degree of tension of their general tone, degree of active consciousness, personality traits dominating in their structure. Extreme conditions are conditions that require the worker to exert maximum stress on physiological and mental functions, sharply exceeding the limits of the physiological norm. Extreme mode in the most general sense is a mode of operation in conditions beyond the optimum. Deviations from optimal operating conditions require increased volitional effort or, in other words, cause tension.

Authors and researchers distinguish the first stage of fatigue, at which a relatively weak feeling of fatigue appears. Labor productivity does not fall or falls slightly. However, it cannot be assumed that if the subjective experience of fatigue is not accompanied by a decrease in performance, then this experience has no significance.  The feeling of fatigue often appears when an employee, despite hard, exhausting work, subjectively feels quite capable of working. The reason may be: increased interest in work, special stimulation, volitional impulse. Being in such a state of resistance to fatigue, in some cases a person actually overcomes it and does not reduce work productivity.