Peculiarities of Self-Regulation of Police Officers with Different Professional Experience
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Abstract. The relevance of the study is due to the need to study the psychological mechanisms of adaptation of police officers to the conditions of professional activity, which is accompanied by a high level of stress, extreme situations and increased demands on the personality of a law enforcement officer. Developed self-regulation skills are an important factor in the professional effectiveness of police officers, as they contribute to maintaining work capacity, prompt decision-making and preventing professional burnout. Self-regulation is considered as a holistic system that includes planning (determining goals and strategies of activity), modeling (forecasting the development of situations and possible consequences), programming (structuring actions in accordance with the chosen strategy), evaluation of results (analysis of the effectiveness of actions and their adjustment), flexibility (the ability to adapt behavioral strategies to changing conditions) and independence (autonomy in making decisions and responsibility for them). The results of the empirical study show that with increasing professional experience, police officers: 1) approach planning activities more consciously, more clearly define goals and ways to achieve them; 2) more effectively predict the development of situations, which contributes to the rapid adoption of optimal decisions in changing conditions; 3) improve the decision-making process, which reduces the likelihood of errors and increases the efficiency of actions; 4) better control their own emotional state, which ensures resistance to stress and prevents impulsive reactions. At the same time, with increasing professional experience, there is a tendency to reduce flexibility, assessment of results and independence in the self-regulation structure, which may indicate the formation of rigid response strategies, reducing the ability to adapt to non-standard situations. The results of the study indicate the importance of forming adaptive self-regulation mechanisms and justify the need to implement self-regulation development programs in the system of psychological support for professional activity to support police officers at different stages of their service.
Keywords: self-regulation; police officer; service activities; professional experience; psychological support.
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