Psychological structure of the officer's intelligence: theoretical review and system analysis

Abstract

Introduction. The task of forming of the personality of an officer who possesses not only the sum of knowledge, skills and abilities, but a developed system of values, and, ultimately, intelligence is relevant for modern higher and military schools. To solve this problem, it is necessary not only to properly organize and direct teaching and educational activities, but also to establish the psychological structure of the intelligence of the future officer, as well as the peculiarities of its functioning. The author tackles the issues of researching the concept and structure, as well as identifying the features of the mental functioning of intelligence, based on the use of systemic and interdisciplinary analysis, by studying the array of literature from various areas of social and humanitarian knowledge, while revealing the psychological laws of the real life of intelligence.The study presents the main scientific results of the theoretical and systemic analysis of the psychological structure of the officer's intelligence, in which the formal, meaningful as well as functional and activity aspects are revealed.Materials and Methods. As the main research methodology, the authors use axiological, historiographic, systematic, cultural-historical and activity approaches adapted for solving problems. The main research methods were: hypothetical-deductive method; analysis, synthesis, comparison, analogy and abstraction; systematic analysis and modeling.Results. The main scientific results of the research are the systematic conclusions about the psychological structure of intelligence, generalized by the author, revealed on the one hand, on the basis of the analysis of literary sources, and on the other hand, through the study of its real functioning and being in the mental activity of the individual.Discussion and Conclusions. The mind of a military intellectual is the functioning of complex mental formations in the structure of the personality, which makes it possible to correlate events and facts of activity with the general life-meaning problems of his subjective being; he is characterized by a developed intellect and the constancy of the application of critical thinking.

Keywords

• intelligentsia
• intelligence
• system of values
• social functions
• emotional and volitional regulation
• experience