Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Professional Activity of Future Naval Officers

Abstract

There is a need to determine a wider range of factors to anticipate officer behavior in situations of complex interpersonal interaction together with guidelines for self-knowledge and self-development of professional competencies. This study examines the emotional intelligence of future naval officers during probation on ships as a predictor of their success in military service. The article shows that it is possible to predict the results of internships of cadets of a military university on ships through the partial elements and the overall characteristic of their emotional intelligence. One hundred cadets were examined using the N. Hall methodology “Diagnosis of emotional intelligence (Fetiskin, Kozlova and Manuylova variant), the “Progressive Matrices” test by J. Raven, and expert evaluations of the results of professional internships. The study evaluated the reliability of the distribution of indicators of the components of emotional intelligence “Emotional awareness”, “Managing your emotions”, “Self-motivation”, “Empathy” and “Recognizing the emotions of other people” and correlation analysis of the relationship of the integral level of emotional and non-verbal intelligence with the success of the training of future officers on ships. It concludes that psychological predictors of emotional intelligence and its partial elements predicts the results of professional activity due to self-regulation, self-control, and management of the emotional states of naval officers with fairly high reliability. The predictors identified contribute to the development of targeted corrective and preventive programs for the development of emotional intelligence among naval university cadets.