Psychological peculiarities of a year stay in an Antarctic: selection rules valutation and inner team structure

Second and third teams of the Ukraine Antarctic station Akademik Vernadsky () were examined by sociometric methods. Presented data concern psychological issues that defined team activity during the year stay at the station, and the team preparation for a long duration stay. Creation of the psychological "micro climate" necessary for the winter team becomes the leading problem for medical support. Negative psychological prognoses must become crucial in selection and should be used to reject participation in Antarctic long stay. Year long expositions to Antarctic conditions at the station stimulate appearance of the personal features, hidden in conditions of every day life. We have established major positive and negative features, as obligatory reference for winter long stay and their real ratings. Non formal inner group structuring was also recognized and studied. That informal structure influenced workability of the team.