Personality traits of non-departmental security personnel in connection with the particular character of their professional activity

Abstract

One of the central concepts of our research is psychological observancy, i. e. the ability to understand individual psychological characteristics of another person from their external and nonverbal manifestations. The concept of professional vigilance, the ability to notice essential features of objects and phenomena, is based on psychological observancy. The particular character of nondepartmental security personnel's work calls for thorough observancy of people, the ability to notice signs that foreshadow a risk of their committing illegal acts. Our main purpose was to fnd out the corelation between professional vigilance and individual psychological characteristics. One of the fndings of our research is that professional vigilance of those in this job is closely connected with personality traits: in a simulated professional situation employees with a higher level of aggressiveness and a lower level of observancy are inclined to ascribe some inadequacy to the actions of the observed person