THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL RESISTANCE OF STRENGTH STRUCTURES SPECIALISTS

Abstract

In the article, the authors theoretically substantiate and empirically prove the influence of personal characteristics on the development of emotional stability of specialists of law enforcement agencies, in particular, investigative and operative units of the National Police of Ukraine. It is noted that professionally important properties of a specialist are formed in the course of long-term professional activity. However, at the same time, a specialist can acquire other qualities of the emotional sphere, which deform the personality and do not contribute to its stability. Emotional stability often turns into various professional destructions. In order to identify the deformation processes of employees of law enforcement agencies and determine the ways of their prevention, the authors conducted an empirical study, applying a battery of psychodiagnostic methods, including “Definition of integral forms of communicative aggressiveness” (V. V. Boyko), “Definition of mental burnout” (O. O. Rukavishnikova), “Personality Questionnaire” (H. Eysenka), “Professional Burnout” Questionnaire (K. Maslach, S. Jackson, adapted by N. E. Vodopyanova), “Study of Integral Personality Accentuations” (K. Leongard, modification by S. Shmishek). The results showed that the investigators found professional “burnout” associated with psycho-emotional personal distancing, exhaustion, spontaneity of aggression, professional motivation, reduction of personal achievements, extroversion-introversion. Operative commissioners showed professional “burnout” associated with extraversionintroversion, depersonalization, inability to switch aggression to activities or inanimate objects, ritualization of aggression, personal distancing, emotional exhaustion and auto-aggression. The results of the article may be of interest to practical psychologists when taking into account in their professional activities and counseling specialists of law enforcement agencies, as well as when providing the teaching of disciplines for future psychologists in legal psychology, labour psychology, etc.