The study defines two main research areas of ideas about a rescuer psychologist. The first area is devoted to the issue of creating social representations about the specialist psychologist and his/her relations with representatives of other professional groups. The other area is represented by works focused on the direct analysis of the profession of psychologist, specific peculiarities of professional activity and personal characteristics of the psychologist. It is indicated that the study of the representations about rescuer psychologist’ involves collective consciousness, and the main direction that allows to solve the reconstruction problem of idea about a rescuer psychologist in the system of categories and conceptual coordinates is psychosemantics. For this purpose, the method of associative experiment defines the basic constructs used by the population to evaluate the representation about a psychologist. The obtained words associations were used to develop a method of semantic scaling of the concept "Psychologist". The research has constructed the semantic profiles of perception of a civilian psychologist and a rescuer psychologist, their most pronounced characteristics were defined. With the help of multidimensional scaling the place of rescuer psychologist in psychosemantic space of psychologists of different kinds of activity was determined. Thus, the rescuer psychologist has the closest professional similarity with a military psychologist and forensic psychologist. According to the respondents' opinion, he/she (a rescuer psychologist) mainly provides psychological correction and rehabilitation, he/she has to work in uncomfortable and dangerous conditions, and also to deal with both individual and group psychological problems.

Conceptualization and measurement of well-being have been carried out from different positions in positive psychology. In this cross-sectional study, the Scale of Positive and Negative Experiences (SPANE) has been adapted and validated on a sample of 458 Ukrainian adults. Confirmatory factor analysis has confirmed a two-factor model in which the positive affect (SPANE-P) and negative affect (SPANE-N) subscales were correlated (r = -0.594). The composite reliability was 0.909 for SPANE-P and 0.861 for SPINE-N. The mean removed variance was 0.630 for SPANE-P and 0.533 for SPANE-N, meaning converged validity is maintained. Discriminatory validity is satisfactory for both SPANE subscales, according to the Fornell and Larcker method and the HTMT test. The analysis of the measurement invariance of the SPANE testifies strict invariance for age and gender.

COVID-19 changes radically people’s daily lives, endangering their well-being. Under such conditions, knowledge on psychological characteristics of pandemic situation experiencing and its impact on life satisfaction as a component of an individual’s subjective well-being is of paramount importance for solving the mental health problems during the pandemic situation. The sample consisted of 465 people (160 men, 34.4%; 305 women, 65.6%) aged 18 to 85 years (M = 35.53; SD = 11.64). As a result, two-thirds of the respondents indicated that the pandemic significantly affected their lives. This was a situation with a high stress-cumulating potential. About 65% of the respondents were worried about possible economic losses, 35% had already experienced worsened financial income. The third of the respondents noted that their professional prospects had deteriorated. Most respondents were concerned about the potential risk of virus contracting. Health changes during introduced restrictive measures because of the pandemic were not felt by most respondents. The assessed impact of the coronavirus pandemic on people’s life was related to the respondents’ perceptions of changes in their professional, financial spheres, health and to the anxiety about possible future negative economic and medical consequences. An individual’s subjective conclusion on the pandemic’s impact did not depend, in general, on socio-demographic factors. According to E. Diner’s model, our results show in favour of the stability of the cognitive component of an individual’s subjective well-being after almost a year of coronavirus in Ukraine. At the moment, there is no reason to claim changes in assessed life satisfaction. It is possible that these results demonstrate only initial changes in the pandemic situation and/or coronavirus stress factors on life satisfaction are mediated by personal characteristics, which are promising areas for further research. The higher life satisfaction was, the less noticeable the negative consequences of COVID-19 were.

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