scholarly journals Communicative Tolerance of Policemen in the Context of Their Emotional Intelligence’ Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
O. О. Євдокімова ◽  
Я. С. Пономаренко
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels

This paper presents the results of an empirical study of the peculiarities of manifestations of emotional intelligence among police officers with different levels of communicative tolerance at the stage of primary vocational training. In this context, the actual model of emotional intelligence and its practical application need to be verified taking into account the specifics of police activity. Emotional intelligence is considered primarily as an integral feature of the personality of a policeman in the context of his professional communication in situations that are problematic. The emotional intelligence of the individual is represented in the article as a cognitive ability to perceive and analyze both their own and others’ emotional states and emotional manifestations; as well as the ability to correctly regulate and use them. Communicative tolerance, in turn, is one of the most important features of the police officer, which shows his attitude to people, the degree of tolerance to unpleasant or unacceptable, in his opinion, mental states, qualities and deeds. As a psychodiagnostic tool, the questionnaire “General communicative tolerance” (V. V. Boyko) and the “Emotional Intelligence” test (D. V. Lusin) were used. The sample consisted of 132 students of initial training of police officers. The results of the study indicate differences in the manifestations of emotional intelligence in students with different levels of communicative tolerance. It is empirically proven that emotional intelligence in situations of problematic communication acts as an integral personality of the police officer, which allows him to successfully recognize and interpret the emotions of both his own and the communication partner. The study of the level of emotional intelligence of the police at the stage of professional training will allow the psychological support service to better address the tasks of professional selection and psychological support for future policemen.

scholarly journals Social intelligence of police officers in the context of their communicative competence

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
O. O. Yevdokimova ◽  
Ya. S. Ponomarenko
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
National University ◽  
Different Levels

Professional work of police officers focuses on a variety of tasks, including patrolling the city and expediting on-call challenges, reaction to traffic violations, prevention of offenses, their detection and response to them, etc. Permanent interaction with the population in the course of performing professional duties requires the police to develop a certain level of communication skills. Interaction with representatives of different layers of society can often be accompanied by conflicts and manipulations in communication. Police officers point to insufficient formation of their communicative competencies, as well as to their professional vulnerability in performing tasks in certain situations of interpersonal interaction. The objective of the paper is to empirically study the features of social intelligence for future police officers with different levels of communicative tolerance. The authors used the questionnaire "General communicative tolerance" (V. Boiko) and the "Social intelligence" test (G. Gilford in the adaptation of O. Mikhailova) as a psycho-diagnostic tool. The sample consisted of 132 trainees from the institute of postgraduate education of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. It is theoretically justified that communication in the professional activity of a police officer plays an important role, communicative tolerance is a necessary internal regulator of communication and behaviour within the police activity, and social intelligence in the professional activity of a police officer is a kind of psychological resource for professional development and self-development in the context of his communicative competence. It is noted that the professional activity of a police officer should be regulated not only exclusively by professional standards, standards of conduct contained in laws, orders and instructions, but also by ethical norms, customs and traditions, public opinion and social expectations in society, in turn, it requires a special professionally oriented social intelligence of the future police officers. The authors have empirically established differences in the manifestations of social intelligence among trainees with different levels of communicative tolerance, which is to determine the deficiency of ability to predict the consequences of the behaviour of other people, to understand the logic of development of interaction situations and the ability to highlight key features in a variety of human non-verbal responses in subjects with low levels. The obtained results actualize the need to develop and implement practical recommendations on the formation of communicative competence among future police officers at the stage of their professional training.

scholarly journals EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ANXIETY

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-50
Author(s):  
Yuri Chernozhuk ◽  
Irina Uzun
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
State Institution ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Internal States ◽  
Personal Anxiety ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Emotional Intelligence Training ◽  
Different Levels

The article presents the results of a theoretical and empirical research aimed at studying the individual psychological characteristics of emotional intelligence of future teachers with different levels of personal anxiety. In the given publication еmotional intelligence is understood as a personality’s ability to realize its own emotions, to understand their causes, to control them, as well as to understand the emotional sphere of other people, to control their emotions. Anxiety in our study is interpreted as a negative emotional experience associated with a premonition of danger. The study involved students from different faculties of the State Institution “South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky” (52 persons). Correlation analysis has shown that the relationships between emotional intelligence and anxiety parameters have only a negative character. Qualitative analysis allowed to study the individual-typical features of emotional intelligence of future teachers with different levels of personal anxiety. Two groups of subjects – "low-anxiety" persons and "high-anxiety" persons has been established to conduct this analysis (with the help of the "aces" method). Determination of statistically significant differences by Student's t-test showed the advantage of "low-anxiety" persons for most parameters of emotional intelligence (p<​​​​​​​0.005 and 0.01). It turned out that they have a better ability to understand and verbally describe their emotions, recognize them, understand their causes, control them. They are better able to cause and maintain the desired emotions, control unwanted, control the external manifestations of emotions. "Low-anxiety" persons better understand other people's emotions and manage them more successfully, analyze the emotional states of other people by external manifestations (facial expressions, gestures, sound of the voice). They are more sensitive to the internal states of others, are able to evoke certain emotions in them, reduce the intensity of unwanted emotions and may be prone to manipulating people. The obtained results can be used to create emotional intelligence training, as well as in the process of professional selection of teachers. ​

Contextual Determinants of Observed Negative Emotional States in Police–Community Interactions

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Makin ◽  
Dale W. Willits ◽  
Wendy Koslicki ◽  
Rachael Brooks ◽  
Bryce J. Dietrich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Interactions ◽  
Dynamic Factors ◽  
Contextual Determinants ◽  
Code Violations ◽  
The Individual

Researchers universally agree that interactions between police and community members have the propensity to be emotionally charged. However, to date, there is limited research investigating situational and dynamic factors that make an interaction between a police officer and citizen more or less emotionally charged. Analyzing unedited police body-worn camera footage, associated with 287 criminal code violations, this research explores the individual, behavioral, and environmental factors that affect police officers’ and citizens’ emotional states during a police–citizen interaction. Results show clear variations at the situational, organizational, and environmental levels influencing the observed emotional state of the suspect and police officer.

scholarly journals Studying of the levels of forming communicative competence of the future police officers

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Alina Kudlay
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Future

As a result of the rapid development of intercultural communication and global transformations taking place in the world in the 90s of the XX century, it became necessary to create a new personality with a new set of qualities and competencies that are urgently needed for the rational functioning in a multicultural world. For the successful performance of professional duties is not enough to be a specialist who knows job, today. Modern Ukrainian society needs educated professionals who can think critically and make decisions independently in a situation that requires a choice, that is, to be dynamic, mobile, creative. That is, the main feature of professional activity is its development, which requires constant updating and improvement of skills. Each specialist should acquire new knowledge and improve their skills, and, consequently, improve their professional qualities. According to research, professionals who are not engaged in improving professional competence, there comes a time in life when they have internal dissatisfaction with their activities and they need to improve professional skills, or even change their professional orientation. Given the large variety of information technologies at all educational levels, it is not difficult to improve your professional level, and mobile learning is a way to solve a number of educational problems today. In this regard, the relevance of communicative education of future police officers is increasing. After all, the need to train a competent police officer capable of effective professional activity in a multi-ethnic environment is a priority in the training of future police officers in the parameters of European standards. The socio-cultural aspect in the professional training of future police officers is not only the formation of communicative competence, but also the space of interpersonal relations, in which a holistic culture of the individual is formed. The article presents an analysis of the diagnostic results of the formation of communicative competence of the future police officer. The results demonstrate the levels of formation of communicative competence of future police officers in cognitive, emotional and behavioural components.

The Individual Security of Polish Police Officers in the Context of the Usage of a Stun Gun as a Means of Physical Coercion. A Study Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (28) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Marcin Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Study Report ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Security ◽  
Stun Gun ◽  
Police Forces

The increasing brutalisation of society results in Polish police officers becoming increasingly exposed to threats to their lives and health. In 2016, 311 assaults on police officers took place. A secure police officer equals a secure state and its citizens. This is why it is so important for Polish police forces to be in possession of proper means of physical coercion which ensure their safety while on duty. The Act on means of physical coercion and firearms of 5 June 2013 specifies the range of the means of physical coercion permissible for use by police officers. However, the most important of these are individual means with which a police officer is equipped. Research conducted among Polish police officers demonstrates which individual means of physical coercion available to them are used most frequently for the purpose of ensuring safety on duty. Undoubtedly, the key measure is the object designated by the said law to incapacitate people using electricity, colloquially referred to as an electric stun gun, a stunner or a taser. This measure of direct coercion, present in the equipment of the Polish Police since 2007, is gaining in importance, as evidenced by the conducted research and the data on the use of electric stunner by police officers.

Cognitive and Utilitarian Aspects of Psychological Support for Police Officers

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-250
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Szołtek
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Psychological Care ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Crisis Situations

Psychological support for police officers and civilian police staff is among key factors capable of preventing negative effects of work-related stress. The need for such support is especially significant in crisis situations, when psychological assistance is provided to police officers and civilian police staff. Comprehensive psychological support is offered by police psychologists, who are responsible for psychological care and psychoeducation, psychology of human resources management and applied police psychology. This paper presents statistical figures as regards forms of psychological assistance provided by psychologists in 2016. As the most common of psychological specialisations, psychological care involves providing psychological assistance or emotional first aid to police officers and civilian police staff; doing psychotherapy; offering psychoeducation to a police officer or a civilian employee; preparing a psychological analysis of suicide or a suicide attempt by a police officer or civilian police worker. In 2016 police psychologists specialising in psychological care and psychoeducation targeted for assistance almost 2,000 police officers and civilian police staff and provided nearly 3,500 pieces of psychological advice. In addition, the psychologists’ work consisted in offering psychotherapy to individuals and support groups. The vast majority of therapeutic activities were targeted at police officers and civilian police staff in crisis situations. An important aspect of psychological support is broadly understood psychoeducation, which makes it possible to cope with mental stress. Police officers cannot avoid work-related stress or traumatic experiences when performing their official duties, but they can and should take advantage of police psychologists’ professional assistance. Statistical data quoted in the report summarising police psychologists’ activity in 2016 clearly shows that their work is necessary.

scholarly journals MOBILE RESOURCES IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE POLICE OFFICERS

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Alina Kudlay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Future ◽  
European Standards

Modern conditions for the modernization of higher education in Ukraine have led to the need to introduce innovative approaches to the implementation of the concept of future specialists training, taking into account European standards. Higher education is crucial for socio-economic and cultural development of society. The need for training of a competent police officer, who is capable of effective professional activity in a multinational environment, is a priority approach in the training of future police officers in the parameters of European standards. The socio-cultural aspect in the training of future police officers is not only the formation of ethno-cultural competence, but also the space of interpersonal relationships in which a holistic culture of personality is formed. The competent paradigm of professional training of the future police officers, as a subject of personal and professional growth, which is capable of expanding and updating the subject areas of their professional activity, becomes of special significance in this context. In this article, we draw our attention to the peculiarities and possibilities of forming the personality of a future police officer by means of mobile resources. In particular, the classification of modern mobile devices for using in the education al processes defined. The importance of the aim of modern professional education – the formation of high level of intelligence of the future specialists, the development and consolidation of complex abilities to solve problems in conditions of constant changes and new requirements of the external environment are revealed. It has been established that the use of mobile resources contributes to increase of interest during classroom hours and the optimal organization of their independent non-auditing work, which will enable the training of specialists of a new type.

scholarly journals Application of the Professional Psychological Quest in the Professional Training of Police Officers

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
Н. Е. Мілорадова ◽  
Н. Є. Твердохлєбова
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Active Form ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Motivational Focus ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The results of the analysis of foreign and domestic approaches to the interpretation and understanding of quest technologies are presented. It is noted that in order to create the proper conditions for the formation of future police officers professional competence, motivational focus on positive personal changes and the desire for professional self-development, it is advisable to use the possibilities of innovative teaching technologies, in particular, trainings and quests. During such classes, participants have the opportunity to learn how to quickly make the right decisions within the limits of their professional competence, applying the obtained theoretical knowledge, as well as to master and consolidate the necessary skills. The educational quest is highlighted as a separate form of design technologies. The features of the developed professional-psychological police quest with elements of the training "Features of the district police officer’s activities" are revealed, its consistent stages are characterized: organizational and preparatory, implementation and final. It is noted that the basis of the police quest is the situational method, the content of which is aimed at mastering the algorithm of actions by the cadets associated with the implementation of the service tasks of the police. It has been revealed that the use of a professional-psychological police quest is an active form of group work and provides the use of set measures aimed at increasing the level of professional training of police officers, developing and changing the structure of interpersonal relations, educational and professional motivation, and contributes to the self-realization of the individual within the professional space. The authors emphasize the advisability of using a police quest, which contributes to the increase of professional competence level due to the increase of the study time amount allocated for practical work, the independent acquisition and use of new knowledge and skills in practice, making the right decisions within the framework of their professional competence, and well-coordinated teamwork.

scholarly journals STUDY OF THE MENTAL STATE OF STUDENTS IN THE PROCESS OF ONLINE EDUCATION DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 2705-2710
Author(s):  
Larysa L. Borysenko ◽  
Larysa V. Korvat ◽  
Olga V. Lovka ◽  
Antonina M. Lovochkina ◽  
Oksana P. Serhieienkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Confined Space ◽  
Prolonged Stay

The aim: Exploring the specifics of the underlying mental states of university students in the context of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifying their relationship to mental health. Materials and methods: The study of mental states was carried out using three valid methods, namely: a clinical questionnaire for the detection and evaluation of neurotic states (K. Yakhin, D. Mendelevich), a questionnaire for diagnosing the level of social frustration (L. Wasserman, adaptation of V. Bojko), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (Ch. Spielberger, adaptation by Yu. Khanin). The author’s questionnaire (L. Borysenko) was used to study the connection between the factors of online learning and emotional states of students. The obtained empirical data were subjected to qualitative and quantitative processing. Results: The analysis of the obtained data allows to state the fact of predominance of high and increased level of situational and personal anxiety in the subjects in the conditions of online learning. In the process of psychodiagnosis of neurotic states, it was found that most students have a level of painful or borderline mental conditions such as anxiety, neurotic depression, asthenia and autonomic disorders. It was found that students have an elevated level and high level of social frustration. The main factors of online learning, which, according to students, cause them to deteriorate mental health are: forced to stay in a confined space, lack of direct social contacts, prolonged stay in a static position, increased study load and volume of tasks, anxiety for academic success and quality professional training, concern for their health and the health of their loved ones. Conclusions: The forced transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected the mental state of many students. In most respondents, this manifested itself in increased anxiety, depression, autonomic reactions due to limited opportunities to communicate with teachers and classmates, new learning conditions and increased workload.

PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK WITH THE CONVICTS’ SERVING PUNISHMENT IN A SPECIAL REGIME COLONY

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Олеся Николаевна Ежова
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Motivation To Change ◽  
Penal Colony ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
Future Loss ◽  
High Level

В статье рассматривается проблема готовности к освобождению осужденных, которым судом назначено наказание в виде пожизненного лишения свободы, а также лицам, которым смертная казнь в качестве помилования заменена на этот вид наказания, с учетом того что в настоящее время у многих осужденных наступило право на условно-досрочное освобождение, которое вызывает много вопросов, связанных с критериями оценки личности этих осужденных и мерами, направленными на подготовку их к освобождению. Анализируются трудности, с которыми сталкивается психологическое сопровождение этой категории осужденных: проблемы установления психологического контакта (вынужденный контакт); дефицит времени (Правила внутреннего распорядка) для оказания индивидуальной и групповой психологической помощи; необходимость обеспечения безопасности при работе с ними; отсутствие у осужденных мотивации изменяться, а также к совместной работе с психологом; негативные эмоциональные состояния и высокий уровень конфликтности среди осужденных. Характеризуются психические состояния, которые испытывают эти осужденные на различных этапах отбывания наказания в исправительной колонии особого режима (агрессивность, высокий уровень конфликтности, отсутствие перспектив на будущее, утрата смысла в жизни). Анализируются объективные и субъективные факторы, влияющие на личность осужденного в течение длительного срока отбывания наказания, и факторы, от которых зависит готовность этих осужденных к освобождению. На основании анализа данной проблемы делаются выводы о том, что особое внимание следует уделять не только профессиональной подготовке пенитенциарных психологов, но и их психологической готовности работать с этой категорией осужденных. The article is about the problem of the readiness to release convicts who have been sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, as well as to persons for whom the death penalty has been replaced by this type of punishment as a - early release, which raises many questions related with the criteria for assessing the personality of these convicts and measures aimed at preparing them for release. The difficulties faced by the psychological support of this category of convicts are analyzed: problems of establishing psychological contact (forced contact); lack of time (internal regulations) for the provision of individual and group psychological assistance; the need to ensure safety when working with them; convicts' lack of motivation to change, as well as to work together with a psychologist; negative emotional states and a high level of conflict among convicts. The mental states that these convicts experience at various stages of serving their sentences in a special regime penal colony are characterized (aggressiveness, high level of conflict, lack of prospects for the future, loss of meaning in life). The objective and subjective factors influencing the personality of the convict during a long term of serving the sentence, and the factors on which the readiness of these convicts to release depends are analyzed. Based on the analysis of this problem, it is concluded that special attention should be paid not only to the professional training of penitentiary psychologists, but also to their psychological readiness to work with this category of convicts.

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