PSYCHOLOGICAL PECULARITIES OF THE PERSONALITY OF CIVIL SERVANTS DEPENDING ON THE SPECIFIC OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51547/ppp.dp.ua/2023.3.10Keywords:
emotional burnout, civil servants, character accentuation, psychological peculiarities, specifics of professional activity, police officersAbstract
The events of February 2022 made adjustments to the historical development of the independent and sovereign state of Ukraine and completely changed the life of Ukrainian society. The syndrome of emotional burnout (and its individual symptoms), as known, is characterized for representatives of socionomic professions in connection with their professional activities, now becoming more and more common among different levels of the population of Ukraine, which is connected with the traumatic experience of the war events. Representatives of law enforcement agencies, who ensure peace and order in the cities of Ukraine, constitute a risk group, as the performance of their professional duties is characterized by an incredible level of tension and responsibility. This article is devoted to the problem of studying the psychological characteristics of the personality of civil servants (on the example of law enforcement officers), which are characteristic of the manifestation of emotional burnout syndrome, objectively related to the content and specific of their professional activity. It is important to note that most of the subjects were diagnosed with symptoms of professional burnout syndrome of the I-III degrees ("Tension" phase are currently forming, or already being generated, among 10% of the subjects; "Resistance" phase is formed or in the stage of formation among 30% of the respondents, respectively, and the last phase of burnout syndrome - "Exhaustion", among 18% of the subjects). While analyzing the results of the study of psychological peculiarities of law enforcement officer personality, it has been found that neuroticism, spontaneous aggressiveness, irritability, reactive aggressiveness, shyness and openness are characteristic of law enforcement officers who have developing or already developed burnout syndrome. And such qualities as sociability, serenity, emotional lability are characteristic of police officers without manifestation of emotional burnout syndrome. It has been found, that at "Tension" phase of burnout syndrome there is manifestation of anxious type of accentuation among law enforcement officers, and at the phase of "Exhaustion" – excitable type of accentuation, accordingly.
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