Risk factors for the development of anxiety disorders

Relevance. The article studies risk factors of anxiety disorders. The relevance and significance of the research topic is justified by the need to preserve the knowledge accumulated within the outgoing clinical and psychological paradigm (with regard to the transition to ICD-11), generalize and systemize earlier obtained results, as well as supplement them with trends that manifest themselves in the transition to an updated understanding of borderline personality disorders.

The objective of the article is to clarify the totality (groups) of risk factors for anxiety disorders related and unrelated to social events on a global scale. The novelty of the study is an attempt to identify risk factors for the formation of anxiety disorders in connection with such social events as the COVID-19 pandemic and the geopolitical conflict caused by the beginning of the military special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.

Methods. General scientific (dialectical, analysis and synthesis, comparison and analogy, annotation, annotation and abstraction), special (systematic, comparative analysis, etc.), research (analysis of Russian and foreign literature on the problem of research, results of empirical research, social surveys, etc.) are among the priority research methods.

Results and discussion. As a result of our research, the author arrived at the following conclusions: firstly, the risk groups for the development of anxiety disorders, caused by social events of global scale or without direct motivation, include intrasocial, extrasocial, economic, and political reasons; secondly, the risk groups for the development of directly dominant anxiety disorders associated with global social events include epidemiological and geopolitical impacts; thirdly, all these events shift the emphasis towards specific components of the enlisted groups, thus forming a situationrelated set of risk factors impregnated with the development of such anxiety disorders, that most evidently produce various types of borderline personality disorders and antisocial behavior in the social micro and macro scale.

Conclusion. The study eventually allowed to identify the risk groups for the formation of anxiety disorders, including borderline personality disorders.

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