The study of psychological factors influencing the professional success of correctional officers. Expert assessments, findings and conclusions
The article aims to describe the results of the research on psychological factors influencing the professional success of correctional officers, which was carried out by the authors (273 correctional officers from the correctional institutions and pre-trial detention centres located in the Russian Federation participated in the research). The authors consider the concept of success, taking into account the interrelationship between the external evaluation of the results of correctional officers' activities and their personal characteristics identified with the help of questionnaires and 7 diagnostic techniques. The identified psychological and socio-demographic characteristics of correctional officers from different departments and services are considered from the point of view of their influence on the evaluation of correctional officers' professional activities. Mathematical and statistical processing allows the authors to reveal a number of regularities contributing to increasing the efficiency of correctional officers' professional activities in the penitentiary system. Having analysed the results of the research, the authors identify and describe the factors that might be taken into account by interested parties in the process of selecting and recruiting personnel for subdivisions of the penitentiary system under modern conditions and point out that there are a number of issues that require further research with a view to improving the situation in the penitentiary system.