Professional deformation - by and large transfer of their professional qualities and skills into everyday life. Examples of professional deformation are huge and they can be listed endlessly.
Each of us spends most of his life at work, and we unconsciously transfer any professional skills and habits to personal life. It is for such a deformation that you can determine what a person does in life. After all, if you meet a person on your way, constantly indicating what and how to do correctly, you involuntarily decide that he is a teacher. A friend trying to solve your personal problems, you will consider a psychologist. Of all the above, the notion of professional deformation develops.
Professional Deformation of Personality
Professional deformation of a person is a change in the perception of personality stereotypes, ways of communication, behavior, as well as character, coming under the influence of prolonged performance of professional activity. What professions are more subject to professional deformation of a person? First of all, they are representatives of those professions, whose work is connected with people - leaders, cadres, psychologists, teachers and officials. The employees of the medical and military spheres, as well as employees of the special services, are slightly less professional deformed.
Professional deformation of employees can be sustained or episodic, positive or negative, and also be superficial or global. As a rule, it manifests itself not only in manners of behavior and jargon, but also in the external appearance of a person.
Types of professional deformation
- General professional deformations are deformations peculiar to workers of a certain profession. For example, law enforcement officers are characterized by the syndrome of "antisocial perception", in which every person is perceived as a potential violator;
- Special professional deformations - the data of deformation arise during the process of specialization. For example, a lawyer - resourcefulness, the prosecutor - the prosecution;
- Professional-typological deformations - types of deformations associated with the imposition on the personality of certain psychological features, reflected in the structure of professional activity;
- Individual deformations - deformations peculiar to workers of the most different professions. They are due to excessive development of professional qualities, which subsequently lead to the emergence of super qualities, such as labor fanaticism and over responsibility.
Prevention of professional deformation
Prevention of professional deformation includes a number of preventive measures aimed at identifying the prerequisites of deformation and their timely elimination. In order not to succumb to professional moral deformations, start mastering the techniques of mind control, try to focus on standards and stereotypes. Try to think and act on the situation on the basis of immediate conditions, forgetting about the patterns.
The reasons for professional deformation may be as follows:
- lack of understanding of the nature and objectives of the work;
- unwillingness to work in this field;
- self-confidence;
- wrong discipline;
- weak control, or even lack of exactingness on the part of the authorities;
- overload of the employee with official affairs;
- increased nervousness.
Professional deformation is not always a bad thing. After all, there are many useful professional qualities that can be successfully used in everyday life. And get rid of them is not necessary. Whether it is negative manifestations of deformation, which must be dealt with without delay. If you do not want to become a hostage to your work, try to eradicate all the negative from your professional deformation as quickly as possible.