Regulatory and personality predictors of the reliability of professional actions

Morosanova V.I.,

Gaidamashko Ig.V.,

Chistyakova S.N.,

Burmistrova-Savenkova A. V.,

Kondratyuk N.G.

Published: Oct. 20, 2017

Background. The present research is carried out in the context of the conscious self-regulation of professional activity. Objective. It investigates the regulatory and personality predictors of reliability in rescue operations under stressful conditions. Design. The research sample includes 87 rescuers (72 men and 15 women aged from 25 to 50 years). Respondents were asked to complete the Morosanova’s Self-Regulation Profile Questionnaire – SRPQM, the Eysenck Personality Profile - Short (EPP-S), and the expert questionnaire “Professional Reliability of Rescue Operation” designed for this particular study. Results. On the basis of a correlation analysis, the structural model of the predictors of action …

The influences of intentionality and effectiveness of adults’ behavior on infants’ imitation of object-related actions

Tatyana N. Kotova,

Alexey A. Kotov,

Tatyana O. Yudina

Published: Jan. 1, 2014

In the second year of life, infants are actively interested in objects used by adults, despite the number of experienced difficulties in achieving their goals while handling these objects. What causes the child attempt to handle an object for a designated purpose while watching the adult? One of the evident explanations concerns the effectiveness of the adults behavior and the child’s desire to achieve the same result. However, multiple studies have shown that a child is guided not exclusively by the hoped-for result, but also by the adults intention. In our study, we verified the reason guiding a child’s choice …