Personality traits of police cadets in the aspect of deviant behavior

The study presents the test results for 542 police cadets including 80 students having unsatisfactory academic progress (students at risk), 31 students expelled for disciplinary reasons, and 2 students died by their negligence. The survey is based on the 16PF Questionnaire by R. Cattell, the Multilevel Personality Questionnaire on Adaptability by A.G. Maklakov and S.V. Chermyanin, the Aggressive Behavior Self-Assessment Questionnaire that is the modified Buss-Durkey Inventory, and the Projective Test on Dominant Instincts by V.I. Garbuzov. The research reveals that students expelled for disciplinary reasons have lower indicators of abstract thinking, personal and adaptive capacity, neuropsychic stability, indirect aggression, and negativism compared to students with high academic progress. At the same time, they are more self-sufficient, verbally aggressive, irritable, suspicious, and self-destructive. The positive relationship of dignity (the desire to preserve self-esteem and intolerance to any form of humiliation) with three scales of the Multilevel Personality Questionnaire on Adaptability indicates a poor prognosis. Police cadets at risk are more verbally aggressive and have higher indexes of aggressiveness and hostility in contrast with the successful students. The research identifies that the 16PF Questionnaire by R. Cattell and the Multilevel Personality Questionnaire on Adaptability are uninformative while the Aggressive Behavior Self-Assessment Questionnaire is very informative for the prediction of deviance.