Differences in the state of psychological readiness of cadets to professional activity in dangerous situations after a year of study
The article presents a comparative analysis of data from a study of the main structural components of psychological readiness for professional activity in dangerous situations in a related sample of first and second year cadets of the educational institution "Mogilev Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus". The introduction describes dangerous situations in the professional activities of employees of the internal affairs bodies, based on the analysis of the work of scientists, the content of psychological readiness for professional activity in dangerous situations and its main structural components are determined. The purpose of the work is to obtain and analyze data on the dynamics of significant indicators of psychological readiness for professional activities in dangerous situations among cadets of the educational institution "Mogilev Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus" as a result of the impact of the educational process on them during the year of study. In the main part, for the first time, the results of diagnosing the state of psychological readiness of cadets for professional activities in dangerous situations are described, a characteristic is given of the severity of some personality traits of cadets that are significant from the point of view of future professional activity, as well as their dynamics over the course of one year of study. In conclusion, changes in indicators of significant characteristics of psychological readiness for professional activity in dangerous situations among cadets in the course of exposure to the educational process are described, and a promising direction for further work is proposed. The practical significance of the results of the study underlying the article is determined by the possibilities of their wide use in the educational process in the training of specialists for internal affairs bodies, scientific justification and development of programs for psychological support of cadets in the process of education in higher education institutions of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, development and approbation of the system for monitoring the professional readiness of employees of internal affairs bodies to act in dangerous situations.