Factor Structure of Basic Personality Characteristics of Police Patrol Officer

Authors

Yuliia Boiko-Buzy^{1, *,} , Liudmyla Piankivska, Ihor Pampura

State Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

^*b-byy@ukr.net

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211218.018How to use a DOI?

Keywords

patrol police officer; personality; individual-typological features; factor analysis procedure; four-factor model

Abstract

Research article is devoted to the study of a number of basic personality characteristics of a patrol police officer and the procedure of factor analysis of the obtained results. Specific conditions of the service of a patrol police officer cause personal changes that may cause certain difficulties in becoming a professional and negatively affect the formation of the functional system of his/her body, change the characteristics and behavioral responses and as a result cause reduced efficiency, effectiveness and quality of tasks. These aspects must be taken into account when studying the individual psychological characteristics of patrol police officers and the subsequent organization of the process of psychological support of personnel. The main attention is drawn to the analysis, comparison, systematization and generalization of the data received by results of psychodiagnostic studying of individual-typological features of police officers of the corresponding specialization. Conduction of a factor analysis of the results of the empirical study contributed to the verification of the factor structure of the basic characteristics of the personality of the patrol police officer and the reduction of the measured indicators into a four-factor model. The practical significance of the study is caused by the need to optimize the stage of an interpretation of the results of the study of the identity of the patrol police officer and will improve the process of psychological support of the staff of the unit as a whole.

Copyright

© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuliia Boiko-Buzy
AU  - Liudmyla Piankivska
AU  - Ihor Pampura
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/18
TI  - Factor Structure of Basic Personality Characteristics of Police Patrol Officer
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Psychology and Legal Regulation (SPL 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 107
EP  - 112
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211218.018
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211218.018
ID  - Boiko-Buzy2021
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