PROBLEMS OF PERCEPTION AND SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF RISK FROM IONIZING RADIATION

Abstract

Perception of risk from ionizing radiation is the basis ofpsychic traumatizing during radiological accidents and incidents. Various approaches to the evaluation of this phenomenon and the results ofresearch done during the last twenty years are analyzed in the article. It is shown that cognitive representations ofrisk, emotional value attitude to the radiation hazard, motivation andpersonal attitudes, strategies and social and psychological resources of radiation threat processing and overcoming are presented and are in the complex interaction at the same time in this multi-component composition