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S.I. Filippchenkova
The problem of studying the psychological aspects of professional motivation of firefighters and rescuers is considered. The main approaches to the interpretation of the concept of motivation in psychological science are briefly described. The results of an empirical study of the features of professional motivation of firefighters and rescuers conducted using psychodiagnostic tools are presented: a questionnaire to identify the psychological orientation of the personality of B. Bass, a methodology for diagnosing motivation for success and avoiding failures, etc. Ehlers, methods of identifying socio-psychological attitudes of the individual in the motivational and need sphere of O.F. Potemkina. The data obtained during the study allowed us to conclude that the focus on business dominates among firefighters and rescuers (the subjects demonstrated a moderate orientation to success and prefer an average level of risk), that psychological attitudes to freedom, result and altruism are the main ones in the hierarchy of value orientations.
motivation, socio-psychological attitudes in the need-motivational sphere, professional activity of firefighters-rescuers.