Psychological Make-up of Corrupt Officials Serving their Sentences in Confinement Institutions

The article discusses the psychological make-up of corrupt officials serving their prison sentences in confinement institutions. We established that they are distinguished by the following qualities: attentiveness and persistence in attaining their personally significant goals, lack of straightforwardness in communication, machiavellism, distinct deviousness, slyness, insidiousness, cynicism, estrangement, emotional indifference, disregard for moral and ethical standards, tendency to manipulate and need to dominate others, aspiration for high social standing. The empirical study that we conducted in the places of imprisonment helped us to reveal the six-factor personality structure of a corrupt official. By the usage of cluster analysis the corrupted officials have been diagnosed to be of the venal personality type. On the one hand, individuals of this type are distinguished by the pronounced domination factor, on the other hand, the adequacy of their self-appraisal is low.

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