Psychology

L. Khechuashvili

Personality Profile and Characteristics: Comparative Stady of Military and Civilians

Presented paper concerns establishing characteristics of the personality profile of military officers and interrelation between these characteristics and personality attributes measured by means the PDQ-4 .

The concept personality involves several aspects of human beings such as emotions, thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It includes a wade range of mental processes that determinates features of human behavior across various situations.

Categorizing someone into several numbers of types is one of the widespread methods to describe a personality. Personality type is the distinct pattern of personality characteristics, qualitative (not quantitative) differences that are used for categorizing people. It is defined as the combination of characteristics which are interrelated in systematical way.

Such a combination is the personality profile measured by typological inventory based on the typological approach.

So the goal of our investigation is:

  1. Establishing personality profile of military people. Given (a) that our previous research findings suggest that male military people differ from civilians according personality attributes measured by means the PDQ-4 [4] and (b) the fact that not all of the people choose occupations related with military, we hypothesized that there might be some differences in personality profile components between male militaries and civilians;
  2. Establishing interrelation between the findings of previous research (i.e. revealed differences) and personality profile components of military and civilians.

Importance and actuality of presented research topics are determined by the applied value of the findings:

  1. In case of establishing the typical personality profile or particular components of profile it will be possible:
    1. Providing more adequate and accurate staffing;
    2. Planning and carrying out more appropriate consultation and/or rehabilitation programs if necessary.
  2. In case of establishing correlation between the particular components of personality profile and personality attributes measured by means the PDQ-4 it will be possible to make some prognosis based on a feature about the other one.

Thus, our research hypothesis is:

  1. Personality profiles (or some of it's components) differ in military and civilian groups;
  2. There is correlation between the personality profile components and personality characteristics measured by means the PDQ-4.

 

 
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