Psychological Research on Stress in Kazakhstan – Past, Present, and Future

Abstract:

This is article describes the progress of stress research in Kazakhstan during the last years. The past, present and future research will be described briefly. The leading role of the Kazakh National University of Almaty (Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science, Department of general and applied Psychology) will illustrated by the analysis of a Symposium held in October 2019 in Almaty. The method of research is a systematic literature analysis. The results of analyses and examples can show the growing amount of articles and publications of stress research in the last years. This implicates the higher importance of stress and the role of psychosocial risks in stressful situations of life. The results come to the conclusion that psychology more and more fulfills its important role in the analysis of stress in the Kazakh society and is using all kinds of methods from identity research, resiliency research up to modern neuropsychological approaches. In all parts of work and life in Kazakhstan stressful conditions can be detected as well as cultural forms of resources which comes from tradition and history of middle Asian people.