Psychological Stability vs. Subjective Assessment of Psychological Safety in Secondary School Teachers (Kamchatka Peninsula)

Psychological stability is a personality trait responsible for coping with adverse influences. It makes it possible to maintain health, work performance, and focus on particular goals. Psychological security is the experience of security or insecurity in a specific life situation. The psychological health of teachers who live and work in extreme climate may need special approach. Since one’s psychological stability correlates with one’s subjective assessment of psychological safety, the authors tested this hypothesis on 62 secondary school teachers that reside on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East. The participants were clustered by psychological stability and surveyed for psychological safety. Teachers from different psychological stability clusters demonstrated both similar and different resources of professional activities and psychological security. Their psychological stability depended on the personality rather than on the extreme character of Kamchatka as extreme climatic environment.

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