Correlation of Personality Characteristics and Life Resilience in Students of Higher Educational Institutions of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs

Introduction. The relevance of the research is due to the necessity of studying the relationship between personal characteristics and life resilience of law enforcement officers directly affecting the professional performance. Currently this problem is not sufficiently developed. The purpose is to study the relationship between life resilience and type of personality, as well as the dominant mental type in law enforcement officers. Materials and Methods. Experimental basis included respondents — men and women aged from 21 to 23. The total sample consisted of 101 persons. The following methods were employed: «Individual typological questionnaire „ITQ+”» (by L. N. Sobchik modified by K.V. Sugoniaev), “Hardiness Survey” (by S. R. Maddi modified by D. A. Leontiev), Method of identifying the dominant mental state (by L. V. Kulikov modified by K. V. Sugoniaev, 6-scale form). To achieve the goals and perform the tasks of the study the correlation analysis with a Spearman rank correlation coefficient was applied. Results and Discussion. The correlation analysis established the relationship between life resilience and type of personality, as well as the dominant mental type of law enforcement officers. It was found that the officers with an extraverted type and high working capacity are the most resilient. Conclusions. Life resilience of law enforcement officers revealed a significant correlation with extraversion and introversion. They are characterized by resilience, high level of efficiency expressed by extraversion, ready to overcome difficulties and independently plan their actions.