PERSONAL OBJECTIVES AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPONENT OF MEANINGFUL SELF-REGULATION OF LIFE ACTIVITY OF THE STATE FIRE-FIGHTING SERVICE PROFESSIONALS, EMERCOM OF RUSSIA

Psychological examination of the professionals of the St. Petersburg State FireFighting Service was performed to evaluate their life objectives as a criterion of adaptive self-regulation of activity. A system conception of human psyche served as a methodological base of the study, and an activity approach was used to pay special attention to how an individual tries to reach his determined objectives, how he designs his everyday capabilities and regulates his behavior (activity) to reach personally important objectives which all in all determine his personal «Self». Three groups of fire-fighters were identified according to their adaptation capabilities for self-regulation (group with effective self-regulation, predicted risk group, and risk group). The strongest purposefulness was revealed in firefighters who mentioned no avoidance objective in the list of formulated life urges. A weak direct correlation was established between variables of objective cohesion and total number of both formulated urges and abstract objectives, along with a weak direct correlation between proportion of avoidance objectives and working experience of fire-fighters.

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