scholarly journals PREDICTING ADAPTABILITY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS USING STRESS MODELING

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Vera Gennadievna Bulygina ◽  
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Dubinskii ◽  
Mariya Yurievna Belyakova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Stress Modeling ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Psychological Features

Background. The relevance of the study is associated with the need to increase the effectiveness of measures to prevent the development of mental disorders in law enforcement officers and to form a stable psychological adaptation to high-intensity stressors when working in extreme conditions. Aim. The paper aims to evaluate the adaptability of people of extreme jobs with different indicators of regulatory systems during stress modeling. Materials and methods. 158 male officers of law enforcement agencies aged from 18 to 49 years with various types of professional activity were examined: 1) security profile – 24 employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia; 2) sensory-motor/sensory-gnostic profile – 92 males of military contract service of the Armed forces of Russia; 3) team profile – 42 officers of the Armed forces of Russia. The use of biofeedback data allowed to evaluate the indicators of regulatory systems in the initial functional state and during stress modeling. The study of individual psychological features was conducted using a battery of psychological tests. Results. Individual psychological features of professional reliability in law enforcement officers with high, medium and low indicators of regulatory systems during stress modeling were determined. It was revealed that individuals with exhausted regulatory systems were characterized by a low autonomy of regulatory processes, difficulties in goals setting, an expanded sphere of saving emotions, and low activation of behavior aimed at pleasure seeking. Conclusion. Empirical data confirmed the feasibility of creating a method for comprehensive psychological, neurobiological and psychovegetative diagnostics of self-control and self-regulation, which allows expanding the existing arsenal of predictive tools for evaluating behavioral responses in people of extreme jobs that require high mental reserves and neuropsychological stability. Taking into account the individual psychological features of law enforcement officers with different activity of regulatory systems is considered as essential for the creation of individualized preventive and rehabilitation programs.  

scholarly journals Theoretical Justification of the Meaning and Specifications of the Linguistic Competence in NGU Officers

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Liutyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
And Training ◽  
Positive Results

The relevance of the article is due to the European integration aspirations of Ukraine and the prospects of joining its security forces, including the National Guard of Ukraine, to the NATO. So, the formation of language competence in modern conditions is an integral part of the officer’s professional development and training. Theoretical analysis of scientific sources on the language competence development in servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and law enforcement officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine revealed that this problem has not been studied and needs additional research. The essence of the language competence in the NGU officer is revealed as a personal integrative formation, which allows the specialist (an officer) effectively to communicate in foreign language, to achieve positive results in his professional activity. It is studied that the requirements of the NATO STANAG-6001, as well as various aspects of the NGU's professional activity should be taken into account when developing the language competence in NGU officers.

Individual-psychological features of law enforcement officers with different professional experience and professional profile

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 340-346
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Dubinsky ◽  
Vera G. Bulygina ◽  
Maria Ju. Belyakova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Problem Situation ◽  
High Activation ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
Negative Stimuli

The study of professionally significant individual-psychological features of employees of law enforcement units in relation to the leading type of activity, including taking into account professional experience, is an actual scientific and practical issue. The identification of the requirements of the profile activity imposed on the employee, the assessment of different-level individual-psychological qualities allows to draw a conclusion about the effectiveness and suitability of the employee for the profession. The professional experience of employees of law enforcement agencies significantly affects the features of stress response, decision-making, motives for official activity, and the state of maladjustment. The study aims to identification of individual-psychological characteristics of law enforcement officers with different profiles and professional experience. 179 male law enforcement officers (average age - 30,2±6,2 years, average professional experience - 7,5±6,1 years) were examined. The employees were divided into 3 groups, depending on the type of professional activity. Group 1 consisted of employees of the security profile (n=67), group 2 - of the communicative-informational profile (n=46), group 3 - of the inspector-communication profile (n=66). The subjects were further divided into subgroups with professional experience up to 9 years inclusive and with experience of 10 or more years. The methodological complex includes: Self-control questionnaire; Behavior Activation and Inhibition questionnaire; Test Technology of Psychosemantic Analysis - Semantic Analysis of Activity (Noss I.N., 2009); Test Problem Situation Analysis (Noss I.N., 2009); a modification of the S. Rosenzweig Frustration Toleration Test (Noss I.N., Ignatkin V.N., 1997). The employees of the security profile were distinguished by the predominance of intropunitive reactions and fixation on the obstacle when assessing the conflict from their own position, high physical activity. Individuals of the communicative-informational profile were distinguished by impunitive reactions, fixation on self-defense and satisfaction of needs, high inhibition of behavior to negative stimuli, high activation of behavior, and high efficiency of resolving problem situations when assessing the conflict from an external position. Persons of the inspector-communication profile were distinguished by high rates of extrapunitive reactions in the whole, unrestrained affect of irritation, preference for simple tasks, low inhibition of behavior. The classification in a group of the security profile with high professional experience contribute: a preference for simple tasks, high activation to promote; in the group of communicative-informational and inspector-communication profile - high activation of achieving the goal. The generalized group of law enforcement officers with 10 years or more of experience in assessing the conflict from their own position was distinguished by the severity of extrapunitive reactions and fixation on the obstacle and on self-defense, the predominance of unrestrained affect of irritation, preference for simple tasks, low inhibition of behavior to negative stimuli. The results obtained allow us to conclude that there are differences in the psychological profile of law enforcement officers with different types of official activities and work experience. The profile of employees of communication-information activities was more consistent with the universal personal and professional qualities required for employees of law enforcement agencies in terms of psychophysiological qualities. Least consistent with a universal professional requirements officers of inspector-communication activities, which was reflected in low capacity for learning, reducing the effectiveness of problem-solving, emotional instability. With an increase in the length of professional experience, there is a predominance of externally blaming response strategies and low self-control.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF SELF-REGULATORY BEHAVIOR OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN EXTREME SITUATIONS: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Vladislav Dubrovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Regulatory Behavior ◽  
Behavior Of Law ◽  
General Physical

The relevance of the research lies in the need to develop self-regulation skills in law enforcement officers, since this category of employees often performs professional functions in extreme situations, including anti-pandemic measures. The research problem is the contradiction between the increase in physical, intellectual and emotional stress experienced by law enforcement officers in extreme professional situations, on the one hand, and the need for an objective assessment and self-regulatory behavior, on the other. The purpose of the study is to examine the sociological specifics of assessing self-regulatory behavior of law enforcement officers in extreme situations. The article includes the results of an empirical study conducted in 2020-2021 in the Belgorod region, which was attended by current law enforcement officers (n = 134) undergoing advanced training. The following methods were used: a questionnaire survey and a formative experiment were used to collect data; computer analysis of the Excel package and comparative analysis were used to process and analyze the obtained materials. The results of the study showed that mastering self-regulation skills allowed law enforcement officers to understand better the causes of stress, taught them self-control, and improved the quality of communication with colleagues and immediate supervisors. In addition, it was concluded that such indicators as general physical well-being, a decrease in the level of anxiety, irritability and aggression improved.

scholarly journals Self-Regulation and Self-Management Ability of Law Enforcement Officers in Relation to Constitutional Factors of Personality

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-358
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Tarasova ◽  
Igor’ V. Sud’enkov ◽  
Roman S. Tarasov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. Taking into account different approaches to the problem of arbitrary purposeful activity, as well as the existing lack of empirical data, the question of evaluating the relationship of self-regulation and self-management is an open and topical one. The leading role in the organization of activities can move from one process to another. The article analyzes the data obtained in the study of the assumption that at some level of the organization of activities, there are both elements of the process of self-management and the process of self-regulation; they are closely intertwined, interpenetrating depending on a particular stage. However, there are phenomena of personal formations that can affect self-regulatory mechanisms in self-management activities. These constitutional factors may be dominant or subordinate. The purpose of the study is to identify the relationship between the ability to self-management and self-regulation in law enforcement officers with constitutional personality factors. Materials and Methods. To conduct the study in accordance with this goal, we used the following questionnaires: N. M. Peisakhov “Ability to self-management” (SSU test); V. I. Morosanova “Style of self-regulation of behavior with a scale of reliability” (SSPM-2011); method of multivariate research of R. Kettell’s personality. Results. In the course of the study, we identified conditions (the degree of expression of the factor “N”, etc.) in which the value of explicability of dependent variables is higher, which indicates a changeable (dynamic) the nature of the mutual influence of conscious self-regulation and the ability to self-management and, in turn, is a certain feature of this professional activity. Discussion and Conclusion. In the course of the study, statistically significant relationships were obtained between General and particular indicators of the methods of V. I. Morosanova and N. M. Peisakhov. Along with this, we have identified reliable correlation indicators that characterize the relationship between R. Kettell’s constitutional factors with conscious self-regulation and the ability to self-management. It is obvious that the results obtained at this stage of the study are clearly insufficient to make any decision on the issue of “breeding” self-regulation and self-management. The results of univariate and multiple regression analysis of the original sample (N = 446) in addition to the low level of mutual dependence common indicators “of the process itself” – 28,6 %, and the total indicators from individual scales methods SSPM – 2011 and test SSU 30,91 % and 39,77 %, respectively, to assess differences in perceived self-regulation and ability for self-government, depending on the impact of constitutional traits of law enforcement officers.

scholarly journals Personal transformations of the elements of behavioral component of law enforcement officers’ professional activity

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
N. Ye. Tverdokhliebova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Coping Behavior ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Behavioral Component ◽  
Personal Transformations ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Difficult Situations

The author of the article has provided the results of the study of the features of personal transformations of the elements of behavioral component of law enforcement officers’ professional activity at the stage of training in higher educational institutions with specific learning conditions. The interdependent elements of behavioral component of a law enforcement officer’s professional activity have been singled out, namely: the adaptive potential of an individual, skills and behavioral self-regulation styles, individual and business qualities, mechanisms of psychological protection and coping-behavior strategies. The author has diagnosed the features of strategies and models of coping behavior of law enforcement officers at different stages of professional training. So, in difficult life situations it is typical for freshmen to come into contact with others for decision-making. Despite this, they are able to take responsibility and solve problems independently, although they still need support from others. Second-year students tend to work together to achieve mutual goals that coincide and to avoid the risk of failure due to long-term analysis of solution options and possible consequences, they are prone to re-insurance and cautious actions. Third-year students seek support from others (family, friends, colleagues), have the ability to solve problematic, difficult situations with other people, are able to cooperate and behave combining inner strength and politeness to the environment. MA students use practically the same with third-year students a set of models of coping behavior, search for social support and interaction with people. However, they are more prone to cautious actions and weighed decisions than third-year students. It has been determined that law enforcement officers at the stage of professional training are least of all inclined to use passive and asocial coping strategies. Thus, freshmen in difficult situations will not demonstrate caution and aggression, second-year students will not avoid difficulties and behave in asocial way, third-year students are also less likely to engage in antisocial and aggressive actions, and MA students are less likely to act aggressively and avoid solving problems.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF YOUNG TAEKWONDO ATHLETES AFFECTING THEIR PRE-STARTING CONDITION

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-142
Author(s):  
Kuznetsova Olena
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Expert Assessments ◽  
High Level ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
Competitive Activities

Introduction. The problem of pre-start management in sports has always aroused the interest of scientists, coaches and athletes. Everyone who does sports knows how important it is to exercise self-control and self-regulation of emotional state before the competition. It should be recognized that the pre-start condition becomes an integral part of a sports match. In modern sports, the peculiarities of the manifestation of this phenomenon and its impact on the performance of athletes are actively studied. Therefore, the search for new effective tools and methods to increase the effectiveness of competitive activities of athletes through the management of pre-start condition is relevant and timely. Today, a youth sport is one of the main directions of sports development of the future, which makes it necessary to comprehensively study this area. The most urgent problems facing young taekwondo fighters are considered. It is shown that the formation of the optimal pre-start state is based on the complex manifestation of the athlete's high level of emotional and volitional qualities and mental abilities. The aim of the study: identify and analyze the psychological characteristics of young taekwondo fighters in the category of cadets, which affect their pre-start condition. Material and methods: analysis of scientific and methodological literature, method of psychodiagnostics – Rogers-Diamond questionnaire to determine the socio-psychological adaptation, the method of expert assessments, methods of mathematical statistics. The contingent of subjects – 20 taekwondo athletes of the cadet category. 8 highly qualified coaches took part in the expert survey. The survey was conducted in August 2021 during a training camp in the Odessa region (Koblevo) at the sports base "Cypress". Results: the model characteristics of taekwondo fighters of the cadet category and the key problems faced by young athletes in the process of preparation for competitions and before the start are determined. Conclusions: Pre-start management is one of the leading problems of preparing young athletes for competitions, which affects the effectiveness of their competitive activities. The obtained indicators of psychological personality traits will allow correcting the pre-start condition of young taekwondo fighters and improving their performance.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES OF THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE OFFICERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE IN THE CONDITIONS OF UNDERGRADUATE

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
V. Blyzniuk
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
The Future ◽  
Level Of Training

The article substantiates the psychological and pedagogical features of the process of professional training of future law enforcement officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a bachelor's degree. It is established that the professional training of future law enforcement officers is gradually moving to the readiness of the future officer to perform professional tasks. It is specified that the educational process in military institutions of higher education takes place in conditions of contradictions between new constantly growing requirements to the modern level of training of future officers and insufficient traditional level of training, between creative level of teaching and reproductive character of training which can be solved by introduction of new innovative technologies. and teaching methods. It has been determined that the process of formation of knowledge, skills and professional skills of future law enforcement officers should be based on two main stages: problem-subject, during which there is a primary perception and understanding of the content and experience of further professional activity; value-regulatory, according to which the formation of team skills and professional skills of the future officer, the development of creative style, the formation of motives, values, leadership qualities, etc. Psychological components that affect the training of future officers are identified: motivation to learn, emotional and volitional personality traits of the future officer, intellectual readiness to solve professional tasks, formed skills and abilities to perform professional tasks, a set of personal and professional qualities of the future officer, reflex. It is determined that the level of professional training of future law enforcement officers is determined by the degree of their activity as a subject, features and opportunities to independently organize their actions, behavior, activities in general on the basis of intellectual readiness and awareness of personal and professional tasks, including professional tasks. Including the ones on a tactical level.

scholarly journals Psychophysiological predictors of mental adaptability among specialists of extreme profile (servicemen)

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.E. Kovaleva ◽  
V.G. Bulygina
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Properties ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Psychomotor Activity ◽  
Psychophysiological Study ◽  
Situational Anxiety ◽  
Single Factor Analysis ◽  
High Level ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
Personal Questionnaire

The results of a comprehensive psychological and psychophysiological study of the characteristics of mental self-regulation in the simulation of various stressful situations in the specialists of extreme profile on the example of servicemen were described in the article. The integrated protocol of the study by the method of biofeedback with consideration of various indices of the central and autonomic nervous system under conditions of stress stimulation was developed. The set of psychological questionnaires was used to diagnose psychological features of self-regulation: questionnaire of self-control H. Grasmik, questionnaire "Style of self-regulation of behavior" by V. I. Morosanova, the questionnaire BIS/BAS, the questionnaire formal - dynamic properties of individuality by V. M. Rusalov, personal questionnaire of the G. and S. Eysenck EPQ, the scale of anxiety Charles D. Spielberger. Statistical method of clustering by the k-means method, single-factor analysis of variance, multiple regression analysis were applied. Psychological and psychophysiological differences between mentally disadaptive and adaptive groups are described, as well as predictors of mental disadaptation for military personnel are identified. It was found that mental disadaptation among servicemen is characterized by a preference for simple tasks in the structure of self-control and a high level of reactive situational anxiety, reduced programming and evaluation indicators, psychomotor erbiness, intellectual speed, indices of psychomotor activity and general adaptivity. The psychophysiological profile of maladaptation differs from the normative indices with elevated indices of subcortical alpha and theta rhythms in the initial background, as well as an increased index of vegetative balance and a reduced index of activation of subcortical centers in the stress sample. Psychophysiological predicators of disadaptation were established.

Expectation of internal control and parameters of empathy as determinants of university adaptation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Smirnov ◽  
◽  
E. V Solovyeva
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
External Control ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
University Life ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
University Adaptation

There is a necessary for self-regulation of a personality during change of leading sort of activity and adaptation to new one. The article considers means which is able to contribute for increase of social adaptation at University. The interconnection between socio-psychological adaptation of students at University and parameters of empathy has been discovered by empirical way. This connection has been examined on analytical, structural and functional levels by using both methods of qualitative and statistical analysis, based on system approach to the research. It was used such methods of interrogation as `Assessment of the level of empathic abilities` by V. V. Boyko; `The methodology of diagnosis of socio-psychological adaptation` by C. Rogers and R. Diamond; `Adaptation of students to University` by M. S. Yurkina. The selection including 233 people was divided into levels by degree of manifestation of expectation for internal control for consideration of features. It includes low level (external control), medium level (optimum) and high one (internal control). It was determined that internal locus of control has an impact on increase of adaptation to University life. It was figured out that there is a manifestation of self-control in individuals who get predominance of conative parameters of empathy. Increase of adaptation is able to be achieved by using combination of the system elements such as an augmentation of facilitate empathic impacts, decrease of inhibitory ones and transformation of neutral effects of empathy on socio-psychological adaptation. Attention was also paid to the research of the structural complex both in general and in its individual manifestations. The structural analysis let to reveal basic and system-forming features of examined connection. Thus, conditions for the average manifestation of expectation of internal control have been found and it was determined that this phenomenon takes on base significance because its middle values promote for integration of system ingredients and increase of system system ability to adaptation process. In such a way it has been proved that harmonization of personality structure is possible being achieved due the increase of self-control and correction of empathic means as a mechanism of responsiveness.

scholarly journals Psychological features of the Police employees

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (93) ◽  
pp. 275-284
Author(s):  
В.Д. Житар
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Legal Psychology ◽  
Professional Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Psychological Features

Psychological characteristics of police officers are now thoroughly investigated in legal psychology. At the same time development of the problem was, both in terms of psychological analysis of the structure of professional law enforcement officers, and in terms of the psychological characteristics its inherent set of psychological characteristics. Even the cursory reviews of the basic psychological characteristics and structural elements of the employee’s professional activity shows how complex and multifaceted its activities. It makes them a variety of requirements, among which one of the most important - having developed important professional qualities of the individual.  

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