Stress-Inducing Situations and Psychological Security of the Penal System Staff

Psychological security necessary to accomplish professional activities depends not only on environment characteristics and stress-producing situations but also on individual stress resistance. It primarily concerns risk-fraught and extreme conditions of activities, in particular, activities of the penal system representatives. Due to it, the requirements for the penal system specialists’ personality capable of working under these conditions are much higher especially in terms of stress resistance than for “ordinary” citizens. The results by the penal system staff and civilians of stress resistance level analysis are compared and commented on.