Особенности состояний психологического благополучия сотрудников органов внутренних дел с различным уровнем служебной лояльности

Abstract

The article considers the problem of interrelation of service loyalty and substantiates the position that loyalty is not only a significant factor in ensuring the effectiveness of professional activity, but also an indicator of subjective well-being. The aim of the paper is to establish psychological peculiarities of psychological well-being experience by internal affairs officers with different levels of loyalty. The hypothesis of the research was the assumption that there is a reliably significant relationship between the indicators of loyalty and psychological well-being of internal affairs officers. The research sample consisted of active employees of territorial bodies of internal affairs (n=200, male - 153, female - 47, the length of service of respondents was 10.6 years and age - 33 years). Research methods: loyalty measurement technique by S.S. Baranskaya, Organizational Loyalty Scale by J. Meyer, N. Allen, Psychological Well-being Scale by K. Riff (adaptation by T.D. Shevelenkov, P.P. Fesenko), method «Motive realization possibility» by V.I. Dominyak. The study revealed common and different values in the indicators of groups of employees with high and low levels of loyalty on the scales of «Autonomy» and «Personal Growth» (p≤0.05). The correlation analysis revealed reliable positive relations of psychological well-being and emotional, professional loyalty, and negative relations of well-being and disloyal behavior in the group of employees with high loyalty level. In the group of employees with a low level of loyalty, the values of well-being correlate positively with the values of professional loyalty and negatively with the values of continued and normative loyalty.