Peculiarities of Decision Making by Police Officers with Different Levels of Professional Self-Fulfilment

Authors

  • Yana Ponomarenko Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Ivan Okhrimenko National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8813-5107
  • Ihor Klymenko Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Dmytro Shvets Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Olena Yevdokimova Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Svitlana Okhrimenko National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/13.2/346

Keywords:

decision making, police officer, professional self-fulfilment, responsibility

Abstract

The research found that decision making within the professional activities of the police is the key to their success, an indicator of the effectiveness of their duties performance. It is appealed that decision making in critical situations requires a high level of individual’s self-fulfilment, which reduces stress and encourages police officers to solve the problem. The aim of the article is to identify and substantiate the relationship of personal characteristics with decision making factors in police officers with different levels of professional self-fulfilment. The sample of the empirical research consisted of 84 employees of special purpose police units. The groups of police officers with different levels of professional self-fulfilment were formed using the questionnaire of “Type and Level of Professional Self-Fulfilment”. The research involved the usage of psychodiagnostic techniques, including: the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire, the Personal Decision Making Factors Questionnaire and the Big Five Personality Questionnaire. The results of the research showed that the behaviour of police officers with a high level of professional self-fulfilment is characterized by prosociality and responsibility due to the peculiarities of decisions they do not postpone them and do not lose valuable time, considering all possible alternatives. This characterizes them as capable to take risk if the situation requires it. On the other hand, police officers with a low level of professional self-fulfilment tend to shift the problem to other people, they often demonstrate independent behaviour and take responsibility for decision making, but this is accompanied by doubts and fears about their rationality.

Author Biographies

Yana Ponomarenko, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Psychology, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Ivan Okhrimenko, National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine

Doctor of law, Professor of the Department of Legal Psychology, National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine

Ihor Klymenko, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Sociology and Psychology, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Dmytro Shvets, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Doctor in Law, Associate Professor, Vice-Rector, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Olena Yevdokimova, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology and Psychology, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Svitlana Okhrimenko, National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine

PhD in Law, Research Fellow of the Scientific Research Laboratory on the Problems of Providing Criminal and Forensic Expert Study, National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Published

2022-06-30

How to Cite

Ponomarenko, Y., Okhrimenko, I., Klymenko, I., Shvets, D., Yevdokimova, O., & Okhrimenko, S. (2022). Peculiarities of Decision Making by Police Officers with Different Levels of Professional Self-Fulfilment. BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 13(2), 328-346. https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/13.2/346

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