Research of personality types of employees of internal affairs agencies with negative mental states

Abstract

<jats:p>The article deals with the problem of negative mental States that occur in employees of internal Affairs bodies when performing professional tasks. The analysis of modern scientific research on the studied problem is carried out. As part of this study, a psychodiagnostic tool was developed and tested to study negative mental States in police officers. The authors studied the negative mental States of employees of internal Affairs agencies and based on the data obtained, conducted a factor analysis that allowed us to determine the main factors for the occurrence of these conditions. Next, a cluster analysis was conducted, which revealed three types of personality of ATS employees with negative mental States: resistant to the effects of negative mental States; little exposed to the effects of negative mental States; exposed to negative mental States. Thanks to the data obtained in the course of the pilot study, the prospects for studying this problem are determined. The set of research methods corresponds to the tasks set; the choice of mathematical statistics methods corresponds to the characteristics of the sample population and takes into account the features of the psychological experiment. The value of the research is to update the study of the problem of negative mental States as a factor of maladaptation of professional activity of police officers.</jats:p>