Bertash M. Professional and psychological selection of employees of the State Customs Service

The dissertation study is devoted to a comprehensive theoretical and empirical study of the psychological determinants of the professional and psychological selection of employees of the State Customs Service, determining their localization in the general topography of the mental sphere of customs subjects, disclosing their system and content with a view to using them in the practice of professional and psychological selection. The scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the dissertation research is that the content and structure of the psychological determinants of the professional selection of employees of the state customs service are determined, a conceptual model of the study of psychological determinants of the professional selection of employees of the state customs service is developed, the theoretical and methodological approach to the formation of professional selection is further developed, the psychodiagnostic tools for studying the psychological determinants of the professional selection of employees of the state customs service are improved. The empirical part of the dissertation presents the procedure and results of the experimental verification of the effectiveness of the formation of psychological determinants of the selection of future employees of the state customs service. It is proved that future customs officers studying at higher courses have more developed psychological characteristics that serve as determinants of professional and psychological selection. It has also been proved that the key determinants of the professional psychological selection of future customs officers, which are the basic psychological markers of their professional suitability, are developed intellectual lability, formed skills of self-regulation and emotional intelligence, predominance in the general picture of emotionality of the tendency to experience positive emotions, developed and harmonious motivation of professional activity. It has been determined that the main psychological parameters that play a systemic role as a differentiating criterion by which it is possible to determine the psychological type of a future customs officer are their dispositional-characteristic and motivational-value features. In general, it has been proved that in the framework of customs officer education, there is a progressive formation of those psychological parameters and determinants that determine the success of future professional activity and underlie the effective mastery of the customs profession; the effectiveness of professional psychological selection depends on the ability to assess a set of psychological determinants that function in different areas of the personality structure of a future specialist: cognitive, emotional, self-regulatory, motivational and value and dispositional.