April 2019, № 2 (220), pages 99-106

doi: 10.25198/1814-6457-220-99

Vdovina E.S., Vdovina A.A. THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE IN THE SECURITY DIVISION PERSONNEL IN THE PENITENTIARY ESTABLISHMENTSPsychological resilience is a major resource to protect people’s physical and mental health and to ensure their social and psychological adaptation. We could also say that psychological resilience protects a person from disintegration and various personality disorders. Therefore, studying this quality in specialists whose activities are directly related to professional stress is the most relevant. This is especially important for law enforcement officers who work in extreme and life-threatening conditions. Therefore, a specialist should use his or her mental and physiological resources as fully as possible, since he or she used to face fatigue and increased responsibility. In the end, such routine mental and physical overload may result in excessive emotional tension or borderline mental states in law enforcement officers. Therefore, an officer may violate discipline, use firearms for no reason or try to commit a suicide.
The aim of our study was to assess the level of psychological resilience and volitional self-control related to the functional duties of the security division personnel in the Federal Penitentiary Service. In pursuing this goal, we studied the differences in the level of psychological resilience of employees depending on the division, and also revealed significant differences in the level of volitional self-control. Methodological tools consisted of the “Prognoz” (Prediction) technique and volitional self-control questionnaire. It was found that the differences between these groups exist at the level of a tendency to increase the number of persons with a level of psychological resilience above the average in the group of employees of the security division. Personnel of the security division also has higher indicators of volitional self-control. That is, personnel of the security division is better developed volitional regulation, they are better able to control their own actions, states, intentions.
The analysis and interpretation of the results of the research lead to the conclusion that the specifics of the activities of the subdivision of the penitentiary system influence the indicators of volitional self-control. The level of development of volitional regulation among personnel of the security division was much higher than that of another division. However, the feature of the functional duties of personnel does not have a significant impact on the indicators of psychological resilience.Key words: psychological resilience, law enforcement officers, penitentiary system, stress, stress inducing factors.

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Authors: Vdovina E.S., Vdovina A.A.

Year: 2019

doi: 10.25198/1814-6457-220-99

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