Professional ability to recognize emotions from photographs and alterations of personality traits among security officers with different length of work experience
2017
Kalinnikova, L., Baltic International Academy, Riga (Latvia);Psy Technology, Ltd., Riga (Latvia) | Shaplavska, J., Baltic International Academy, Riga (Latvia) | Zavodilov, A., Psy Technology, Ltd., Riga (Latvia)
The main purpose of the activities of security service employees is to ensure security and the rule of law. Therefore, one of their professional requirements is the ability to identify elements of nonverbal behaviour that indicate a potential threat to public safety. Paying attention to face expressions can be a basis for potentially threatening intentions recognition. It has been proved that the ability to recognize emotions can be evolved by professional experience related to profiling as well as positive interpersonal communication shaping attitude towards people. In the professional field being studied, there is a contradiction between the requirements assigned to security staff and peculiarities of their professional activities that adversely affect certain characteristics of a person. The study provides a theoretical analysis of contemporary understanding of emotions recognition from photographs as well as of the professional activities impact on altering personality traits. It also provides an empirical exploration of links between the ability to recognize emotions from photographs and such personality characteristics as hostility and trust in people among security officers with different length of work experience. The study revealed that with the increase in time of being employed in a security service, the employees demonstrate tendencies to have increased suspiciousness, nihilism and hostility towards others and reduced ability to recognize face expressions.
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