Factor psychological determination of military personnel inclination to keep official secrecy

Introduction. The purpose is to reveal military personnel inclination to keep secrecy. Маterials and Methods. The authors employ expert assessment, V. E. Petrov questionnaire assessing the tendency to protect official (state) secrets, V. A. Losenkov methodology for assessing impulsiveness, questionnaire of volitional self-control developed by A. V. Zverkov and E. V. Eidman, method of assessing the level of subjective control by E. F. Bazhin, L. M. Etkind, E. A. Golynkin, five-factor personality questionnaire, methodology for studying the subject’s ideas about himself and the ideal “I” developed by T. Leary, G. Leforge, R. Sazek. The total sample includes 678 respondents. The following methods were used to process the empirical data: descriptive statistics, correlation and linear regression analyses. Results and Discussion. A four-component model for assessment of military personnel inclination to keep official secrecy is substantiated and detailed, which is based on such personal qualities as predictivenes, self-control, normativity, covertness. The paper reveals the role of a factor diagnostically significant structure in determining the behaviour of a military serviceman in terms of working with information constituting an official or state secret. Based on the “Questionnaire for assessing the inclination to protect official (state) secrecy,” a multi-parameter regression model has been proposed, which ensures predicting the inclination of military personnel to keep official secrecy.