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ABSTRACT
This article explains the information about the occurrence of a number of negative environmental conditions as a
result of the drying of the Aral Sea, the deterioration of living conditions, and the sharp aggressive impact of
environmental stress on the behaviour of individuals. that they negatively affect personality traits.
KEYWORDS
population psychology of the Aral Sea region, environmental problems and human psychology, nature conservation,
psychological services for the population, environmental behaviour, environmental consciousness.
INTRODUCTION
We know that environmental problems differ in all
regions of the world depending on the natural
conditions. At present, everydiv knows that due to a
major catastrophe on our territory - the annual drying
up of the Aral Sea and climate change in the entire Aral
Sea region - the population is in critical condition and
various environmental adverse events are occurring.
The tragedy of the Aral Sea is one of the global
Research Article
ECOLOGICAL CRISES AND POPULATION PSYCHOLOGY
Submission Date:
May 01, 2023,
Accepted Date:
May 04, 2023,
Published Date:
May 08, 2023
Crossref doi:
https://doi.org/10.37547/ijp/Volume03Issue05-02
Anjim Karamaddinovna Shamshetova
Associate Professor Of The Department Of Pedagogy And Psychology, Candidate Of Psychology, Uzbekistan
State University Of World Languages, Uzbekistan
Pokiza Shamsiyevna Isamova
Associate Professor Of The Department Of Pedagogy And Psychology, Candidate Of Pedagogy Uzbekistan
State University Of World Languages, Uzbekistan
Muattar Gaffarovna Milieva
Senior Teacher Of The Department Of Pedagogy And Psychology Uzbekistan State University Of World
Languages, Uzbekistan
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environmental problems. The ecological catastrophe in
the Aral Sea is an example of the illiterate use of natural
resources, as well as a vivid example of improperly
thought out human activity. The disappearance of the
sea is associated with the implementation of projects
to change the course of rivers. Historically, the Aral Sea
was considered the center of development of such
peoples as Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks and
Turkmens.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Today, the Aral Sea passes into the new Aralkum
desert, where extensive salt deposits have formed on
the dry part of the sea. Every year, more than 75 million
tons of dust and poisonous salts rise from the Aral Sea.
The dusty paths rising from the bottom of the Aral Sea
are 400 km long and 40 km wide. The salts at the
bottom of the Aral Sea are scattered over long
distances and even reached the Himalayas and
Mongolia [9]. The fact that the population of the Aral
Sea region live in difficult conditions is a feat in itself.
In modern global conditions, the study of the
relationship
between
man
and
nature,
the
preservation of the ecological environment, the
formation of ecological consciousness and culture
among people, and the reduction of the influence of
the human factor on nature pose urgent tasks for many
sciences. The fight against environmental disturbances
requires a targeted solution of psychological problems,
as well as its prevention, the solution of a number of
economic, social, medical, biological problems.
It is known that the psychology of the Aral sea region
population, the provision of psychological assistance
to them and perfect development and official
recognition of a single scientific direction or concept
has not yet received.
The fact that environmental problems always give rise
to economic problems, namely that the majority of the
population invents and submits to chaotic life
principles as a struggle to live in accordance with
modern requirements, certainly allows the emergence
of socio-psychological problems.
It is necessary to expand the scope of research related
to the fact that the psychological service of the
islanders can explore the dynamics of the hierarchical
system of relationships of the individual with himself,
with others and with activity in the process of activity
and, on the basis of this system, prepare the ground for
creating a socio-psychological environment.
It is not difficult to imagine the difficult ecological
situation in the Aral Sea region, the above examples
initially change the mood of a person. It is quite natural
that in itself a frequent change in the mood of the
population living in conditions of environmental
tension, a decrease in their mental abilities, working
capacity, increased uncertainty in their future work can
have an opposite effect on the strategic work of any
society. Negative environmental factors weaken the
mental strength of a person, negatively affect his
behavior, psychologists should not be indifferent to
these aspects.
In this chapter, however, we wish to present the
analysis associated with the study of the socio-
psychological factors of the population living on the
coast of the island in a style consistent with the
purpose of the study.
In this case, the emphasis is on personality traits,
indicators of emotional self-esteem among the
population living on the coast of the island, as well as
on certain socio-psychological factors associated with
the manifestation of indicators of motivation to get
out of existing conflict situations.
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Relevant scientific and practical research was carried
out using well-known and popular techniques in
advanced psychology in order to assess the extent of
the specific individual psychological capabilities of each
person based on the solution of the socio-
psychological problems of the population living today
on the coast of the island.
RESULTS
In this reasearch, we conducted questionnaires from
the population in order to study aspects of the
ecological mentality of the individual, ecological
institutions, ecological culture, subjective perception
of the environment, specific characteristics under the
influence of national mentality, and aspects of the
attitude to ecological problems.
We can witness changes in the attitude of the
population towards the environment in the ecological
crisis in the regions. This is reflected in every ecological
behavior of the youth, who understand that it is normal
for them to act uncertainly in their future work,
anxious situations, negative impact on the formation
of environmental culture, show aggressiveness in
personal behavior, and often get angry. In particular,
they repeatedly emphasized that environmental
problems in the regions are in a very bad state, we have
no other choice, water shortage, poor soil quality, and
the increasing number of diseases among the
population, 80% of the population showed a passive
attitude towards solving environmental problems.
"We don't know what will happen to our youth, the
ecology of our region is getting worse and worse" - 88%
of the population over 50 years of age are worried. 75%
of youth have passive actions, insecure thoughts,
unpleasant appearance of nature, and anxiety. Among
the respondents, young people took an active part in
the conversation and said that they have a lot of work
to do in the future, but it is very difficult. In the
questionnaire, "Would you be willing to spend hours
solving problems related to the Aral sea?", a large
number of people answered "yes" and "of course". It
can be concluded from the answers to these questions
that we can see that the population hopes to look for
opportunities even in a difficult and bad environment.
We must provide spiritual support to such people,
encourage them in their hard work, and strengthen
psychological incentives.
It is natural that there are also economic problems in
the areas where there is ecological tension. Providing
employment to the population is also one of the daily
issues. Social, economic, medical and humanitarian
problems caused by environmental problems in the
Aral sea region are becoming more and more
complicated.
Most of the population said that they have economic
problems in any situation. They said that youth and
middle-aged people are going to work in foreign
countries. In its place, this also causes enough family
problems. It is natural that parents work abroad for a
long time, their children are left unattended, and many
psychological problems arise. Especially in the relations
with their children, there are concepts in their
thoughts that "Parents should go out and work".
We can see a number of psychological problems
related to environmental problems in the Aral sea
region. The psychology of the individual in ecological
stress situations, the individual's perception of
ecological stress and his relationship with it, the
development of environmental ecology and the
psyche of the individual, and the impact on personality
characteristics require the conduct of scientific
research by psychological scientists.
Ecological education of the population, ecological
knowledge and the development of ecological
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awareness in people play a key role in the history of the
entire human development. If we emphasize that
human factors are the origin of the global
environmental problems studied above, now the
preservation of mother nature will also be influenced
by human factors. Of course, we can prevent the
current environmental problems from escalating and
prepare for future climate changes through a highly
developed ecological awareness in humans. Today, it is
necessary to study the interaction between human and
the environment as a psychological problem. At the
same time, it requires the involvement of psychological
specialists in studying the basis of all environmental
problems. Environmental problems have a negative
impact on human psychology and psychophysiology. It
is necessary to conduct psychological research on
existing environmental problems in the Aral sea region,
diagnose the psychological health of the population
and provide them with various types of psychological
services. It is desirable to study the psychological
health of the population, introduce psychoprophylaxis,
psychodiagnosis and psych correction services.
Organization of psychological services for residents in
the Aral sea region is psychological support of various
social spheres - health care, educational institutions,
production, sports, law, etc.
Nowdays, a number of scientific research works were
carried out in psychology related to the improvement
of environmental conditions. For this reason,
ecological psychology, due to the study of all areas,
recommends the last areas of modern applied
psychology, which are as follows;
•
Clinical psychology in ecological crisis situations
(the oldest direction);
•
Organizational-psychological
(management)
advice on solving environmental problems;
•
To impart knowledge about the psychology of
image and public relations to the population.
•
Choosing special places with residents, for
example, encouraging them to find solutions to
problems on the topic "Psychological zone in
nature".
Types of psychological services to the population in the
Aral Sea region should be sequential, complementary
and aimed at providing rapid practical psychological
assistance to the population. It is permissible to include
the organization of the psychologist service in the
following rule.
Criteria for organizing psychological services to the
population in the arolsea region
The main goal Providing psychological assistance to
the population
Basic methods psychodiagnostics,
psychotherapy,
psych
correction,
psychological
counseling,
development of psychological work
Subject concrete individuals or groups of persons,
objects of nature Reliability criteria
efficiency and
experience of the specialist Features of knowledge to
have scientific, theoretical and practical knowledge in
order to be able to correctly evaluate a person in his
professional activity.
In psychological activities, psychologists have the
following general rights and obligations, focusing on
problems related to nature:
1.
As an equal member of the team, a
psychologist can use all the guarantees and privileges
established for employees as a direct participant in the
recruitment process. Should study the impact of
people on the psychological environment and the
impact of natural ecology on the mental development
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of the individual, and should be able to provide
practical psychological assistance to management
bodies and government organizations.
2.
Based on the requirements of his professional
field, psychologist can submit relevant proposals and
applications to the management and higher
organizations to create the necessary conditions for
successfully fulfilling his professional obligations.
Cooperation with ecological centers is ensured. In
connection with difficult environmental situations, it is
necessary to provide the psychologist with a
workplace, training and consultation room, their
equipment,
appropriate
diagnostic
methods,
methodical manuals, literature, and stationery.
3.
It is necessary to present psychological
approaches
to
environmental
problems
at
administrative meetings, scientific councils, and at
meetings of methodological associations, and study
opinions. A psychologist is not involved in work outside
the scope of his specialty and main activity.
4.
A psychologist organizes his work within the
framework of promotion of psychological knowledge,
psychological prevention, psychological diagnosis,
psychological
correction
and
development,
psychological counseling, environmental problems,
prepares and approves annual, half-yearly, monthly
work plans. Provides information about planned and
completed work to the Regional Diagnostic Center.
5.
Provides information to the management and
the team about the individual and public researches
conducted during the year, obtained and expected
results, gives relevant recommendations and advice,
accepts suggestions, opinions and orders of the
individual and the team regarding the psychological
service.
When organizing a psychological service, attention is
paid to equipping the psychologist's rooms. There are
main tasks of the psychological service room. There
should be conditions for conducting art therapy,
zootherapy, ecotherapy, and cognitive therapy.
It is not difficult for the psychologist in his activities to
imagine the difficult environmental situation in the Aral
Sea region, the examples mentioned above are initially
supposed to change and pour the human mood. In
being able to provide psychocorrectional work to the
population in environmentally difficult conditions,
training should be served as a factor that develops
meaningful and almost sustainable qualities in the
future. According to the content, psych correction
training must be developed as a general complex that
includes
the
cognitive
sphere,
personality
characteristics, emotional sphere, behavioral qualities,
interpersonal relations, intra-group relations (family,
collective), child-parent relations. For example, in the
service of a psychologist, it is necessary to describe
harmony with students of art related to the tasks of
ecotherapy as a form of environmental behavioral
activity that will lead to a change in attitude to the
natural environment in the future. In our activities, the
study of art history, art classes allow us to recognize,
that is, to correct, the formation and transmission of
the system of ideas and values related to the natural
world and relationships of people.
Kopitin Aleksandr Ivanovich, the chairman of the
National Association for the Development of Art
Therapy Sciences and Practices, also in the activities of
the "Art Therapy Association", gives his scientific
opinions about the manifesto of ecopoesis-ecological
civilization, the importance of ecological civilization in
the process of finding ways to solve environmental
problems. Using their scientific guidelines, new
approaches to the concept of ecological civilization
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related to ecological situations are needed. We need a
civilization that embraces new ways and meanings of
human existence, linking them to the development of
cultural and natural ecosystems.
Environmental problems in the Aral sea region are not
only local problems, they are one of the global
environmental problems. Therefore, it is necessary to
develop the concept of ecological civilization in the
population. This shows the increase in constructive
efforts related to ensuring the activity of the
population, discussing the perspective of ecological
civilization in all areas, protecting the environment,
and shaping its perspectives. Our way of life is
connected with ecosystems, and it is a condition for its
various forms to appear, develop, preserve and lead to
the future.
Humanity can be considered a participant in a complex
experiment of nature together with the global
ecosystem. In a rapidly changing ecosystem, people
feel the changes in themselves as ecological beings.
Modern environmental psychology studies the issues
of people's interaction with the urban environment
and the place of residence, home and industrial
environment, including information exchanges,
conducts research on virtual environments. We should
teach the laws, general theoretical principles, and basic
concepts of the process of human interaction with the
environment during training sessions with the
population. It is desirable to form an interest in
psychological knowledge and the ability to apply it in
practice. "Environmental psychology" courses and
study sessions are aimed at developing the
professional competencies of a psychologist. It
provides a deep understanding of the essence of the
process of human interaction with the environment.
Human interaction with the environment requires
psychological analysis.
In order to eliminate the negative psychological impact
of environmental problems on people, it is desirable to
organize a special direction of psychological services
among the population.
Environmental problems are different in each region,
but they have the same effect on human psychology
and psychophysiology. However, it is recommended to
differentiate the specific features of the location in the
relations to the environment through the dialectic and
culture of the mentality of the regions, the ecological
consciousness formed in them.
CONCLUSION
The local psychologist should determine the
ecologically difficult zones in the regions. It is
permissible to determine the causes of environmental
problems and choose the most suitable methods
depending on the situation.
It is appropriate to provide psychological knowledge
aimed at increasing the attention of a person in
environmental situations, protecting himself, others
and nature.
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