Abstract:

The tough crisis fuelled by the pandemic influenced greatly each human’s personal perception of the world. Feeling and experiencing stagnation and recession affected the well-being of many people and reduced efficiency of people’s and organizations’ personal work efforts. The issue of creating and implementing a psychological program that would facilitate conservation of resource for effective work became especially challenging in 2020. Previously carried out research work and practical studies allowed to create conditions and activate psychological mechanisms reducing the destructive impact of crisis and promoting purposeful influence on people’s well-being and the efficiency of their work.

The theoretical base includes the following statements of modern psychology:
1. the vision of the future and the time perspective are determining in the vision of self-efficiency and the final efficiency of work;
2. Design Thinking model as a way to actively “reconstruct” the view of the current situation;
3. the role of the semiotic function in the creation of the world model;
4. achievements of modern neuropsychology in researching the outer impact on the brain activity.

124 (51+73) individuals took part in the survey. The experimental group included 51 individual working in different fields. The control group included 73 individuals working in various types of organizations. The groups were formed in accordance with the convenience sampling principle. Over the period of two weeks, the participants of the survey had to do the offered exercises and fill in a special diary in a form set by the researchers. Two weeks later, tests showed deterioration of general physical and mental state, mood and activity in the control group. The results obtained in the experimental group allow to claim the efficiency of the program.

In September and October of 2020, during the “second wave” of the pandemic the participants from the experimental group were questioned and said that they were using the skill and knowledge obtained during the survey in spring.

Discussion and further purposeful consistent research work as well as enriching the program with our colleagues’ achievements can help us in creating an international psychological program of resource conservation under the crisis conditions.

Keywords:

Resource conservation, crisis, pandemic, semiotic function, psychological aid.