Personality characteristics of security police male employees with «pre-disease» somatic health disorders

The article represents the results of the research of personality characteristics of men who serves in security police units with «pre-disease» somatic health disorders. The sample includes 112 men (length of service from 7 to 15 years), found fit for military service. Clinical psychology method and...

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Main Authors: V. V. Bocharov, K. S. Denisova
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Federal State Budget Scientific Institution National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology n.a. V.M. Bekhterev Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation 2018-07-01
Series:Обозрение психиатрии и медицинской психологии имени В.М. Бехтерева
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Online Access:https://www.bekhterevreview.com/jour/article/view/60
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Summary:The article represents the results of the research of personality characteristics of men who serves in security police units with «pre-disease» somatic health disorders. The sample includes 112 men (length of service from 7 to 15 years), found fit for military service. Clinical psychology method and test psychodiagnostical methods were used in the research. Personality characteristics of employees with «pre-disease» somatic disorders significantly differ from those of their healthy colleagues and express in the following personality features: higher levels of state anxiety and trait anxiety, more frequent use of destructive strategies and patterns of coping behavior, impulsiveness, irritability, indiscipline, conservatism and narrow intellectual interests . Despite the formal absence in the sample of the burnout symptoms, significant differences between the groups appear in the trends to a sense of helplessness, professional or self- disappointment, reduce of emotionally costly duties, personal detachment of employees with «pre-disease» health problems. The results are of undoubted practical significance to improve the effectiveness of psychological and medical support security police employees.
ISSN:2313-7053
2713-055X