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Psychology and Law
2026. Vol. 16, no. 1, 129–146
doi:10.17759/psylaw.2026160109
ISSN: 2222-5196 (online)

Correlation between resilience, professional self-attitude and professional burnout in employees of territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

 
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Abstract

Context and relevance. Due to the complexity of professional activity and the influence of its negative factors on a person, resilience of internal affairs employees is an important personal trait ensuring reliability, stability, and effectiveness in performing tasks aimed at providing public safety. Assessing resilience parameters is crucial for predicting employees’ readiness to successfully overcome unfavourable activity conditions, identifying links with psychological personal resources, increasing the level of adaptability, as well as enhancing professional development. Purpose. To identify significant correlations between indicators of resilience, professional burnout, and professional self-attitude. Hypothesis. The values of the indicators of resilience of internal affairs employees have a positive correlation with the values of the indicators of professional self-attitude and a negative correlation with the signs of burnout. Methods and materials. The research involved law enforcement employees (n = 121), including 75 males and 46 females. The average age of respondents is 32.9 ± 6.3 years. The average service experience is 8.69 ± 4.92 years. The study was based on the following psychodiagnostic methods: S. Maddi’s Hardiness Survey; Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) by C. Maslach and S. Jackson; Questionnaire on professional self-attitude by K.V. Karpinsky and A.M. Kolyshko. Results. Predominantly negative correlations were revealed between resilience and the signs of professional burnout (psycho-emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, mental burnout). Positive correlations were identified between resilience and the indicators of professional self-attitude (positivity of professional self-attitude, self-management in the profession, internal conflict of professional self-attitude, self-blame in the profession, self-deprecation in the profession). Conclusions. Resilience is expressed in the lack of signs of professional burnout, the high belief of a person in his/her own readiness to carry out professional tasks, his/her awareness of opportunities for withstanding difficult activity conditions, his/her positive professional self-attitude.

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Keywords: resilience, hardiness, professional burnout, professional self-attitude, stress resistance

Journal rubric: Psychology of Professional Activity

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2026160109

Received 01.12.2025

Revised 26.12.2025

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For citation: Dushkin, A.S., Goncharova, N.A., Strelnikova, Yu.Yu., Konopleva, I.N. (2026). Correlation between resilience, professional self-attitude and professional burnout in employees of territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Psychology and Law, 16(1), 129–146. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2026160109

© Dushkin A.S., Goncharova N.A., Strelnikova Yu.Yu., Konopleva I.N., 2026

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Information About the Authors

Anton S. Dushkin, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Docent, Head, Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, Saint Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9139-1585, e-mail: dushkin-ac@mail.ru

Natalia A. Goncharova, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Docent, Associate Professor of the Department of Legal Psychology, Saint Petersburg University of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0795-4969, e-mail: goncharova_n@bk.ru

Yuliya Y. Strelnikova, Doctor of Psychology, Docent, Professor, Pedagogy and Psychology Department, St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8375-1293, e-mail: ulich1969@yandex.ru

Inga N. Konopleva, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Docent, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Faculty of Legal and Forensic Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8540-8667, e-mail: konopleva.i.n@gmail.com

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