ISSN 2617-6858
e-ISSN 2617-6866
The Bulletin of National Defence University of Ukraine
- Big Five questionnaire; individual psychological profile; police officer; psychological suitability
- https://doi.org/10.33099/2617-6858-2025-86-4-36-46
- Pages 36-46
The article is devoted to the problems of studying and analyzing individual and personal psychological profiles of police officers, obtained on the basis of a long-term study using the Ukrainian-language psychodiagnostic methodology adapted by the authors «Questionnaire of the Big Five (OVP) (John, Nauman, Soto, 2008). The article presents the characteristics of various types of individual and personal profiles, which are characterized as favorable, less favorable and unfavorable for the official activities of police officers of the National Police of Ukraine. The success of professional activity depends on the typological characteristics of a person, the specifics of the combinations of the leading scales of OVP (extraversion, neuroticism, openness, compliance and conscientiousness), which determine the characterological features, features of communication, thinking, type of reaction to stress, etc. It is shown that most of the described profiles are characteristic of «successful» police officers, who are characterized by a high level of psychological fitness for work, about a third of the examined are characteristic of less successful police officers with an intermediate level of psychological fitness for work, and only a small share of – «unsuccessful» police officers who demonstrate a low level of psychological readiness for work. The study confirmed that, based on the results of this questionnaire, psychologists can draw reasonable conclusions about the degree of suitability of a person for professional activities, as well as about the possibilities of appointing police officers to positions and their professional development
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