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Features of the personality component of the psycho-physiological potential of different social and professional groups

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This study was conducted to develop the concept of population psychophysiological potential of society by revealing the personality traits most universal for the different social and professional groups. Fourteen groups were interviewed with the Kettle’s 16-factor questionnaire, and the results obtained were summarized. Personality qualities such as activity, aptitude for cooperation, aspiration for advances, audacity, independence, and flexibility were found to be the most important for the population potential of society as a whole. Moreover, different social and professional groups were shown to have typical sets of personality properties that dominated in a given population as the components of rather specific psycho-physiological potentials of the groups.

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Zarakovskii, G.M., Zatsarnyi, N.N. Features of the personality component of the psycho-physiological potential of different social and professional groups. Hum Physiol 26, 170–178 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02760088

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