Value of personal values in shaping the professional fitness in specialists of the State Fire Service, Emercom of Russia

Abstract

Personality orientations were studied in 281 cadets and 78 specialists of the State Fire Service (SFS), EMERCOM of Russia. Based on severity of value preferences, examinees were divided into 3 groups according to the direction of life values: 1st - with a humanistic orientation, 2nd - with a pragmatic one, 3rd - equally oriented. The first group included 40 % of the students and 59 % of specialists, the 2nd - 47 and 33 %, and the 3rd - 13 and 8 %, respectively. Personality orientations in the individual cadets and SFS specialists significantly differed in terms of success in professional activity. Coincidence of such personal values as self-development, spiritual fulfillment, active social contacts and creativity, which characterize the humanistic orientation of the individual with the system of professional values, determines the formation of professional competence of employees of the SFS, EMERCOM of Russia. Severity of emotional dysfunctions was analyzed in SFS specialists with different professional experience and leading orientation of life values. Average indices of emotional disorders severity by V.V. Boyko questionnaire (73.3 ± 4.1) points for the entire sample give no grounds for diagnosing their emotional burnout. However, the results from a sample with work experience of 20 years shows that increased experience is associated with more frequent emotional disorders up to burnout, especially among workers with pragmatic value orientations.