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“SELF-IMAGE” OF TRAFFIC POLICE OFFICERS: THE CONCEPT AND SOME ASPECTS OF ITS FORMATION

https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2023-1-1158

Abstract

Aim. To study the socio-psychological mechanisms of the“Self-image” formation of traffic police officers.

Methodology. The research uses modern quantitative and qualitative research methods: historical and psychological analysis, generalization and systematization of knowledge, abstraction and concretization of the cognition process, study of psychological experience, modeling of official activity situations, psychological experiment and observation, questionnaire and testing, interview and survey, expert evaluation, methods of processing and statistical analysis of experimental data (methods of computer data processing, graphical and tabular interpretation of results, methods of mathematical statistics, correlation and factor analysis), which confirmed the positive dynamics of the formation and development of the “Self-image” of a traffic police officers.

Results. The article analyzes the process of forming the “Self-image” of traffic police officers, which significantly affects the quality of professional training and official behavior. In the context of this process, the problem of the negative influence of public opinion and ways to neutralize it through the formation of a positive “Self-image” of traffic police officers is being considered.

Research implications. The article describes the empirical data obtained, revealing the socio-psychological mechanisms of the influence of public opinion on the formation of the “Self-image” of traffic police officers, and the essential signs and features of its formation.

About the Author

Natalia V. Lozhkina
Academy of Management, Ministry of Internal Affairs
Russian Federation

Cand. Sci. (Psychology), Senior Researcher, Department for the Study of Problems of Psychological support of Operational and Service Activities of the Department for the Study of Problems of Branch Management of the Research Center of the Academy of Management, Ministry of Internal Affairs



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