Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Introduction: Servicemen's military skills are determined by servicemen's professionalization, which can be defined as the level of mastery and successful application of a complex of organizational and procedural components that determine the psychological strategies of service and combat activity. Aim: to determine the level of creativity of the military command personnel of Ukraine's Security and Defence Forces and its impact on the military professional activity. Methods: The Method of Personal Creativity Assessment (Ye. Tunik), which allows determining personal qualities and/or the levels of development of military command personnel's creative potential. It assesses the psychological patterns of creativity through the manifestations of such cognitive and personal properties as curiosity (C), imagination (I), complexity (C), and risk-taking (R). Results: Research on personal creativity in the military-professional activities of individuals among military personnel at the command level according to Ye. Tunik’s method provides grounds for the conclusion that: 1) officers have higher level of personal creativity compared to sergeants; 2) іmagination is the leading creativity factor while curiosity is the the second-common creativity factor for the majority of officers and sergeants; 3) the majority of officers and sergeants (almost equally) can take risks in their creative military activities. Conclusions: The results revealed the need for the development of command personnel's.
Author: Eleonora Kirychevska
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409117415