Sarelaynen A.I., Mikhaylova O.Yu. Personality Traits of Investigators Demonstrated in the Process of their Vocational Development

Abstract: The article is devoted to peculiarities of personality profiles and communicative traits (communicative tolerance, personality orientation, treating others as a value) of investigators at the earliest stage of their vocational development. Male investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee participated in the research. There was a group of investigators who had worked for less than one year, a group of investigators who had been working from one year to three years, and a group of investigators who had been working over three years. The research objectives included to define differences in personality traits for each group of respondents. The researchers have used such methods as Berezin's version of MMPI, Boyko's Communicative Tolerance Test, Personality Orientation in Communication (NLO-A test), and Kashinova's Treating Others as a Value Test. To define statistically significant differences, the authors have used the Mann–Whitney U test. As a result, the authors have defined peculiarities of each group and carried out a comparative analysis using statistical criteria. Groups where respondents have different job experience demonstrate different indicators of communicative tolerance, manipulative and ignoring personality orientations. The authors make conclusions about similar personality traits demonstrated by those who had worked for less than one year and those who had been working over three years, in particular, they demonstrated similar indicators of authoritarian, altruistic, and compulsive orientations and treating others as a value. 

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