Personal factors of suicidal risk among internal affairs officers

The article contains the results of analyzing personal peculiarities of two different comparison groups of officers. The analysis was conducted in order to determine the factors of suicidal risk. The officers were examined when entering the service. Various factor structures of personal characteristics were determined for each of the groups. The article also reveals the peculiarities of reacting to psycho-traumatic situations and determines the differences in protective psychological mechanisms, peculiarities of emergence and development of psychological desadaptation states.