The influence of a stressful situation on human behaviour in the modern world

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of the types of response among bailiffs-executors in stressful situations. The relevance of the study is driven by the need to search for effective strategies and technologies for psychological support of bailiff officers which is due to the high riskiness and stressfulness of their professional activities. The study involved 675 bailiffs-executors, 410 males (60.7%) and 265 females (39.3%) aged 21 to 59 years. In our research, we used Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and K. Leonhard-N Shmishek Test to identify character accentuations supplemented with personal data. The study revealed the features of bailiffs’ response in stressful situations and established the prevailing types of response. The obtained data indicate sufficient emotional regulation, stability, activity, initiative, enterprise and resourcefulness among the bailiff service officers in non-standard stressful situations. The data factor analysis allowed us to highlight the main characteristics common for bailiffs-executors with the most widespread - rigid - type of response in a stressful situation. The results of the study can be used in professional training of the bailiff officers, in psychological selection and psychological support, as well as in foreseeing and prevention of professional deformation of a personality among bailiffs.