the factors of mental disadaptation of law- enforcement authorities
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The factors of mental
disadaptation of law-
enforcement authorities
By M.V. Korehova
Supervisors:
MD, Professor A. G. Soloviev
MD, Professor I. A. Novikova
Law enforcement activity is one of the high-risk
professions and is seen to have the highest
degree of extreme conditions and professional stress.
The performance of official tasks by Officers of Internal
Authority have a negative impact on their state of mind and
leads to:
• the increase of depression;
• aggressive behavior;
• the increase in number of suicides;
• gross violation of the discipline;
• worsening of interpersonal and family relations
• and so on.
THE CURRENCY OF THE TOPIC
The purpose of the research: to study the factors of mental disadaptation of law-enforcement authorities.
159 officers of Internal Authority in the Arkhangelsk region
have been examined.
Middle age - 34,3±7,6 y. (М±σ)
METHODS OF INVESTIGATION
• For investigation of social factors:
a questionnaire which reveals socio-demographic features;
• For investigation of professional factors:
a questionnaire which reveals peculiarities of stress made by the
profession;
Mac-Lin’s scale of organizational stress;
• For investigation of individual psychological factors:
multi-level personal questionnaire of the «Adaptability»;
Dembo-Rubinstein’s test in the modification by A.M. Prihozhan;
projective technique of «non-existent animal»;
Ch. Spilberg’s test in the modification by Yu. A. Hanin;
Copying test by R. Lazarus, S. Folkman;
The methodology of copying-strategy of overcoming stress by D. Amirhan;
brief reference test by V.N. Buzin;
methods for diagnostics of person’s emotional burnout level by V.V. Boyko
THE SPECIFICITY OF THE MANIFESTATIONS
OF THE FACTORS OF MENTAL
DISADAPTATION OF THE LAW
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES
Factors of mental
disadaptation
Professional Social Individually
psychological
•a type of professional activities;
•working conditions influence;
•work experience .
•marital status ;
•education ;
•social environment .
•personal resources;
•personal deviations;
•behavioral problems.
DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYEES OF OFFICIALS
OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES
ACCORDING TO PERSONAL ADAPTATION
POTENTIAL(%)
5,50%
80,10%
14,40%
high satisfactory low
DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYEES OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES ACCORDING
TO THE DEGREE OF ADAPTATION(%)
34,6
65,4
unadapted adapted
THE SPECIFICITY OF THE MANIFESTATIONS
OF PROFESSIONAL FACTORS OF MENTAL
DISADAPTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIALS The components
of the factors
The frequency and specificity of the manifestations of the factors
of disadaptation
Type of
professional
activities
The signs of disadaptation among 50% of the officers of division
of operational and investigative activities and among 26,3% of
the officers of division of public order
Working
conditions
influence
41,5% underwent verbal and physical aggression; the high level
of organizational stress (31,4%) (McLean test); the experience of
stress (with a feeling of fear of death) in professional situations
(21,1%);the existence of situations connected with threat to life
(21,0%); business trips to the North-Caucasian region
(20,4%);frequent stressful situations in the activity (11,9%);
immediate threat to health (11,2%); working harder and more
intensive than usual (11,2%); injury during work (9,9%)
(questionnaire).
Work experience Work experience above 15 years (27,6%); Work experience
under 3 years (10,5%)
THE SPECIFICITY OF THE
MANIFESTATIONS
OF THE SOCIAL FACTORS OF MENTAL
DISADAPTATION OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES
The components
of the factors
The frequency and specificity of the manifestations of the
factors of disadaptation
Marital status No family: single (22,5%), divorced (8,0%); no children
(27,2%), more than 3 children (6,6%).
Education Secondary education (10,5%), professional education (36,8
%), higher education in the system of officer-training school
(5,9%).
Social environment The tendency to limit the social contacts, the orientation of
the communication in a narrow circle of people (18,9%).
THE SPECIFICITY OF THE MANIFESTATIONS
OF INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS
OF MENTAL DISADAPTATION OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES
The components
of the factors
The frequency and specificity of the manifestations of the
factors of disadaptation
Individually-
psychological
peculiarities of the
personality
Inadequately overrated level of claims (65.7 %), overrated
self-esteem (24,1%) (acc to methodology Dembo-
Rubinstein); regular use of alcohol (92,7%); Smoking
(50,7%) (questionnaire); low rates of mental abilities
(15,2%); high personal anxiety (10,7%) (an anxiety test by
Spilberg); non-adaptive copying-strategy (6,0%) (a test by R.
Lazarus, a copying-test by D. Amirhan).
FACTOR STRUCTURE OF PERSONAL
PECULIARITIES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
AUTHORITIES
-0,5
0
0,5
1Behavioral control
Communicative potential Moral normativity
Personal adaptation potential
Asthenic reactions
Psychotic reaction
Disadaptational violations
HS
D
Hy
Pd
Mf
Pa
PtScMaSiConfrontation
Distancing
Self-control
Looking for support
Acceptance of responsibility
Avoidance
Planning
Revaluation
Situational anxiety
Personal anxiety
Organizational stress
Tension
ResistanceExhaustion
factor «neurotic state» factor «dysadaptational violations»
factor “resistance to stress”
CONCLUSIONS
1. 1/3 of the members of the law enforcement authorities have the signs of mental disadaptation.
2. The following factors influence the development of psychological disadaptation of staff:
• Professional (the type of professional activities, working conditions influence, work experience);
• Social (the absence of a family and children, having 3 children or more, low educational level);
• Individually-psychological (personal resources, psychopathological symptoms, behavioral deviations)