Overcoming the emotional burnoutof employees of Internal Affairs Bodies as a resourcefor psychological safety development
The article presents the results of the thesis study of the problem of development of police officers’ psychological safety with psycho-pedagogical means of emotional burnout overcoming. The practical part of the study was carried out on the basis of Ruzaevka Line Police Department on Transport of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the framework of professional psychological training. The study considers the prevention of emotional burnout as one of the main personal resources for development of psychological safety of police officers. The authors present the results of diagnostics of the emotional burnout syndrome of police officers at the ascertaining stage. It is proved that its formation is influenced by individual psychological characteristics of employees, studied in the course of professional psychological selection for service in Internal Affairs Bodies. A factor structure of a high level of emotional burnout of employees (including emotional stability and volitional control) has been established. It formed the basis for development of psycho-pedagogical program for overcoming the emotional burnout of police officers. Authors also determine the main psycho-pedagogical conditions for development of psychological safety of police officers through psycho-pedagogical overcoming of emotional burnout (diagnostic, preventive, organizational and preventive). The results of the control stage of the study showed that taking into account the identified factor structure and adherence to the set of identifiedpsycho-pedagogical conditions contributes to increase in effectiveness of development of psychological safety of police officers by psycho-pedagogical means of overcoming emotional burnout. The data obtained by the authors contributes to solution of scientific problems associated with increasing the effectiveness of prevention of violations of psychological well-being of police personnel. The revealed features of overcoming the emotional burnout syndrome, based on its factor structure, make it possible to concretize the goals, objectives, direction of preventive work with employees, thereby contributing to an increase in its effectiveness.