FEATURES OF FORMING PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL TRAITS OF A MODERN OFFICER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

Abstract

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26565/2074-8922-2026-86-35

The article presents research on the conditions and factors that influence the formation of professional and personal qualities of cadets in a higher military educational institution that would meet the requirements for a modern Ukrainian officer.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the features of training officers in a higher military educational institution and their impact on the formation of socio-psychological traits of a modern officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Research methods. The methodological basis of the study is based on an integrative approach that combines psychological, managerial and socio-professional concepts.

Results. The research proves that the formation of such an officer must begin with clarifying the psychological characteristics of each cadet as an individual with their ideas about their personal qualities. It is shown that the environment of a higher military educational institution is very important, which must be formed primarily as a pedagogical environment. It is such an environment that will ensure the comprehensive development of the cadet as a professional in military affairs, a personality capable of leading subordinates in the future, who combines high patriotic consciousness, combat skill and high moral and volitional qualities.

It is proved that the formation of a modern Ukrainian officer from a cadet, yesterday's schoolboy or military serviceman, is possible provided that such conditions of training and upbringing are created in a higher military educational institution that will create conditions for a balanced interaction of adaptation (social-psychological, educational, military-professional) on the one hand, and individualization on the other.

The article outlines the main social and psychological features that should be inherent in a modern Ukrainian officer. Taking eight psychological types as a basis, the current requirements for the professional and personal qualities of a modern officer are outlined.

It is substantiated that in the military-professional sphere of activity, decisions by the commander should be made by means of logic and rationality. An officer as a leader requires sensitivity to subordinates, as well as flexibility to adapt to dynamically changing conditions, i.e., traits characteristic of irrationals and ethicists. It is stated that a modern officer should belong to the type of sensory-logical extroverts. He should also have the properties of an intuitive-ethical extrovert. Along with professional qualities, aspects of morality, morality, and ethics of relationships are no less important for a modern officer as a person. It is emphasized that a modern officer should be a highly moral, educated person, and an ethical-intuitive introvert is already operating in this area.

Conclusions. A modern Ukrainian officer should combine a wide range of psychological types. In order to form the professional and personal qualities of a modern officer, it is necessary to take into account that a cadet is a person with mental functions inherent only to him, and the conditions that influence his adaptation to the specific conditions of military service. And this is possible provided that there is a comprehensive approach to solving the problem of creating such conditions for the training and upbringing of cadets, their self-development, which would ensure a balanced course of the processes of adaptation and individualization.

For the most reliable determination of professional suitability, peculiarities of the worldview, worldview and formation of the worldview of a candidate for training, and subsequently a cadet, it is necessary to conduct their socio-psychological analysis both at the stage of admission to the military educational institution and during his formation as an officer. Regarding the problem of spiritual, moral and ethical education, it should be noted that their solution must be entrusted, first of all, to the cadet himself, since self-education and self-organization are an integral part of the life of an officer as an individual and a professional.