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The adoption of more efficient strategies to manage emotions is critical in combat situations for the effective accomplishment of armed forces’ missions. The purpose of the article is to conduct a systematic review of recent researches and publications that focus on the problems concerning the embedding emotional intelligence into the context of military service, and to identify the potential benefits of using emotional intelligence to enhance the efficiency of military task performance. Materials and methods. General scientific research methods, namely analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, generalization, etc. were applied for the purpose of thorough and objective consideration, as well as generalization of the results of previously conducted researches. The material for this systematic review of scientific researches were the articles, which aimed to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and some factors that determine the effectiveness of military tasks. Results. The main characteristic of recent studies of emotional intelligence in the military perspective is their practical application, that is, the focus on the application of research results in practical activities. We have identified especially actively developing and important research areas studying the benefits of harnessing the potential of emotional intelligence in relation to 1) military leadership, including creation a shared vision, relationship building, and fostering effective teamwork; 2) human resource management policies and practices aimed at maximizing the full potential of military personnel, both within and outside the military sphere; 3) effectiveness of combat and day-to-day military tasks that are implemented owing to group cohesion, psychological well-being, and organizational commitment. But there are insufficient developed approaches to the problem of engaging the potential of emotional intelligence into military education. Conclusions. In the future, employment of the concept of emotional intelligence into a military context can serve as the basis for 1) development of an effective military personnel policies and practices; 2) maintaining and strengthening of the armed forces’ human potential due to the development of new ways to prevent the termination of contracts and dismissal of servicemen, as well as to improve their performance; 3) conflict management among military leaders and team members; 4) overcoming the challenges that military personnel face during reintegration into civilian life.

The aim of the article is to prove the need for discourse analysis for the study of modern Ukrainian non-institutional military discourse; to substantiate the methodological approach in line of discourse analysis to the study of the psychological and social context of the Ukrainian non-institutional military discourse. Materials &methods. The study has used a set of general scientific research methods (analysis, classification, systematization, explanation) in order to analyze scientific sources, to generalize research data, to define concepts. Results &discussions. The scientific interest of social psychology and sociolinguistics is aimed at studying the following aspects of non-institutional military discourse: 1)intentional (intentions, strategies, plans), namely, cultural differentiation, construction and protection of personal identity; 2)mainstreaming (embodiment of intentions in the sign-symbolic space of discourse), for example, appeal to metaphorical models, actualization of the concept WAR and its components; 3)pragmatic, namely, adaptation of military servicemen to combat stress, psychological protection from the destructive effects of a traumatic situation;4)identifying (recognition and understanding of meanings, values, construction of identity), notably, creation of a single cultural and symbolic space of a separate military community, construction of the opposition “friend foe”;5)contextual (expansion of the semantic field on the basis of socio-cultural, historical and other contexts),which is reflected in the information and psychological confrontation during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict;6)emotional, such as the definition of emotional and semantic dominance that is peculiar to military discourse. In this perspective, non-institutional military discourse can serve as a material for studying the goal-setting of ideology in society. Principles of critical discourse analysis developed by T.Van Dijk is especially relevant for the study of the peculiarities of non-institutional military discourse during unjust, aggression wars aimed at conquering foreign countries.Due to the complexity and versatility of non-institutional military discourse it is also necessary to turn to another type of discursive analysis, which has the most empirically oriented approach and allows to focus on extensive psychological issues such as cognition, emotions, attitudes, values, prejudices, memory, motives; namely, discursive psychology.Conclusions. The focus on achieving the most effective and efficient implementation of the study requires recourse to discourse analysis as the methodological approach. The concept of critical discourse analysis developed by T.Van Dijk and discursive psychology are more relevant for the study of modern Ukrainian non-institutional military discourse. Key words: critical discourse analysis, discursive psychology, non-institutional military discourse.

The article presents the results of an empirical study of gender relations in the Ukrainian armed forces as one of the conflict zones, in which difficulties may arise during service. The study of correlation between the male service members’ psychological well-being and the change of the military organization nature from masculine to gender-neutral can tackle the occupational segregation related to gender inequality and facilitate the creation of a balanced perspective for both genders in order to achieve more comprehensive decisions on gender equality in the armed forces. The study revealed a correlation between the level of cadets’ psychological wellbeing and the process of integrating women into the armed forces of Ukraine. The integration of women into the military contributes to the psychological well-being of those cadets who perceive a female soldier as a bearer of the core values that constitute the essence of military service, and consider a female soldier as an equal member of the military collective. However, for another part of cadets the feminization of the army brings about the preconditions for experiencing negative emotions and, consequently, diminishes cadets’ psychological wellbeing. The reason of men’s negative emotions can be dissonance caused by biased thinking based on gender role stereotypes, but it can also have reasonable grounds. The main reason for the cadets’ lack of psychological well-being is the sense of injustice caused by the privileged position of women in the army in the distribution of duties, functions, responsibilities.