Psychological safety of students in interaction with virtual reality

In the current situation, the relevance of studying the problems of the psychological security of the individual, the conditions and technologies that ensure its safe formation and development is increasing. The article presents an overview of foreign studies of the peculiarities of the influence of virtual reality technologies on the psychological safety of students, specialists, pensioners in situations of specially organized training. The results of studies of the psychological safety of a person in the context of the development of cognitive abilities, psychological well-being, mental and psychological health are analyzed. It is shown that interventions in virtual reality and game models based on virtual reality technologies used in education allow students to overcome the risks and threats to psychological security. The necessity of developing virtual reality technologies is substantiated, taking into account the goals of training and the conditions for their use by students of different ages, in different professional fields and cultures to ensure the psychological safety of the individual.

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