title: [Personality characteristics of police candidates].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the present study is an attempt to study personality characteristics of police volunteers and to determine the correlation between their age and personality features.
  
  
  METHODS
  A number of 106 persons have been investigated, between them 12 women and 94 men in the age from 19 to 35 years. A set of standardised psychological tests has been used as a diagnostic tool, e.g. Eysenck Personality Inventory, MMPI, Raven's Test and Similarities and Vocabulary subscales from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. The analysis of these correlations has been conducted by the use of the Pearson's correlation ratio.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the investigated group the IQ results were within an average range. The analysis of the personality profiles delivered by the MMPI-test has proved that it is impossible to determine any concrete personality disturbances in police volunteers. Results achieved in the Eysneck's test eliminate the test as a diagnostic tool useful in the qualification of police volunteers no correlation has been found between age of the volunteers and their personality features.
authors.affiliation: Poradni Zdrowia Psychicznego Polikliniki MSWiA w Opolu.
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blajer
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kucia
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klasik
authors.forename: Halina
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mac-Blajer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards*; D011044:Poland; D016495:Police; D011594:Psychometrics