Self-regulation style features of behavior as a resource to overcome mental burnout condition of law enforcement officers

The problem of mental burnout among the employees of law enforcement officials is still relevant in psychological science. Its relevance can be explained by a number of specific conditions in which these professional activities happen. These are the need to perform their duties in strictly limited time, constant interaction with the asocial contingent, injury, risk-taking, discrepancy between willingness to self-reliance and identifying the means of achieving the objectives of the activities, etc. These specific conditions provoke mental burnout, and make high demands on their physical and mental resources to overcome it. In modern scientific meaning mental burnout is a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion, manifested in the professions of social sphere and penetrating in all the structures of personality (emotional, motivational, cognitive) that violates their optimal functioning. Psychological practice dictates the need to find effective ways to overcome mental burnout, and study its limiting characteristics, defining the limits of the correctional and preventive measures in this regard. The article presents the results of our research of self-regulation style features of the law enforcement officers behavior as a resource to overcome mental burnout condition. Flexibility of the regulations provides plasticity of all regulatory processes and allows responding adequately to fast changing events and successfully solve the tasks in situations of risk, thus helping to overcome mental burnout. Optimization of behavioral self-regulation style features ranging from medium to high reduces the severity of mental burnout condition. The obtained results can be considered as a base in developing programs of psychological support for law enforcement officers to overcome mental burnout condition.

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