Professional Resilience of the National Police of Ukraine Managers of Departments and Units and its Correlation with the Level and Structure of Professionally Important Individual Traits
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https://doi.org/10.32631/v.2025.03.21Keywords:
professional resilience, self-actualisation, self-efficacy, mental health, motivation, stress resistance, Big Five questionnaire.Abstract
The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the issues of professional resilience among middle-level managers of the National Police of Ukraine and its correlation with the level and structure of professionally important individual traits. It is emphasised that professional resilience is a systemic personal and professional trait that is formed in a specialist throughout their professional life and manifests itself in a certain level of involvement in professional activities, control over them and acceptance of professional challenges. In the conditions of martial law in the state, the professional resilience of a leader ensures resistance to an aggressive environment, optimal adaptation to existing living conditions and overcoming obstacles.
The researchers of professional resilience are now equipped with a pretty wide range of diagnostic techniques to study this phenomenon in detail, which makes it possible to do more research on the methods and ways to strengthen and develop the professional resilience of the managers of the National Police of Ukraine. O. Kokun’s professional resilience questionnaire is advantageous for using with police employees and managers, as they are representatives of socio-economic professions, and the questionnaire clearly emphasises this professional aspect. O. Kokun’s professional resilience questionnaire is based on three interrelated components of resilience: control, inclusion and acceptance of challenges. When developing the questionnaire, four components were identified in each of the components of professional resilience: emotional, motivational, social and professional. O. Kokun’s questionnaire makes it possible to determine the overall level of professional resilience, as well as the degree of expression of its three components and subcomponents.
Significant correlations have been established between indicators of professional resilience and psychological characteristics that are important for the success of managers in their work, indices of self-actualisation, self-efficacy, mental health, motivation and stress resistance, as well as factors from the Big Five questionnaire, such as extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience.
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