The Relationship Between Responsibility as a Sociopsychological Characteristic of Police Officers' Personality and Their Preferred Decision-Making Style

Aim. To study the content characteristics of responsibility of police officers with different decision-making styles.

Methodology. The main method was the method of psychodiagnostics, implemented using the following methods: the Melbourne Decision-making Questionnaire, the method of "Multidimensional functional Diagnostics of responsibility" by V. P. Pryadein. The methods of mathematical data processing were frequency analysis and correlation analysis by R. Spearman.

Results. The study determines how strongly the characteristics of the different components of responsibility are represented. It is revealed that the dominant decision-making style of police officers is a sense of vigilance. The relationship between vigilance as a style of decision-making with stenic emotionality and the ability to overcome difficulties has been established. The relationship between vigilance and dynamic ergidity, cognitive meaningfulness, subject performance, stenic emotionality, regulatory internality and ability to overcome difficulties has been proved.

Research implications. Taking into account the existing theoretical provisions on the problem under study, the substantive characteristics of police officers' responsibility in the relationship with the way they prefer to make decisions were determined. The obtained data expand the understanding of the psychological characteristics of specialists in the studied professional field. These data can be used by psychologists to support specialists in their professional self-determination, to predict success and identify risks in the process of their professional development.

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