What if you need to undergo a psychophysiological examination?

In connection with the standardization of work and the development of the influence of psychology and psychiatry, many enterprises introduce into their practice a psychological survey of the majority of groups of people who for one reason or another interact with the society: job candidates, service workers, teachers, schoolchildren. The situation is associated with frequent cases of industrial conflicts and even catastrophes associated with the unfavorable psychological background of the employee or the collective as a whole. Specialists in the field of HR developed a multifaceted psycho-physiological survey, borrowed from the experience of clinicians, psychiatrists and counseling psychologists. In the foreseeable future, such a program promises a lot of research prospects and improvement of the work of these or other services.

Practice of techniques in HR. Is it so scary?

In most cases, techniques for psychodiagnostics are offered to respondents when hiring, requiring certain psychological parameters: stress resistance, moral normality, communication skills. The desire of the employer to get an employee "healthy, beautiful, sociable, without bad habits" creates a number of obstacles on the path of the unemployed to his post. However, the expectations of businessmen interested in their own profit are certainly justified and create the necessary level of competition. Psychophysiological examination is offered, as a rule, to responsible persons and employees of the senior level. The need for this procedure is due to the need for a short time to find out what potential is in the future employee, and "is the game worth the candle."

In addition, many techniques help to identify the motivation of employees to work and contribute to improving the management system of the enterprise. Leaders who are not stingy on a psychologist-coach or an experienced personnel officer, rarely face the problem of staff retirement or the assumption of the position of employees who are unable to perform their job duties.

Psychophysiological examination: the Ministry of Internal Affairs, law enforcement agencies and the army

Much attention is paid to testing in law enforcement agencies that have links to the deviant and criminal contingent of people. In this case, a full survey is carried out not only when applying for a job, but also with a certain frequency during the period of adaptation and further service. Particular attention is paid to the FSKN and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These structures automatically give out "red cards" to competitors who have even minor psychological abnormalities, or who dealt with a narcologist or psychiatrist.

In this case, management needs not only psycho-physiological examination, but also full-fledged anthropometry data. The well-known proverb "In a healthy body - a healthy mind" in the interpretation of HR professionals in the case of the reception of a new employee sounds like "Both the body and the psyche should be ready for the load." And loads are often enormous. That is why personnel officers use psychophysiological examination: tests and projective techniques that allow identifying the necessary psychometric parameters.

Luscher color test

The vastness of its application is due to the speed of the study and a fairly accurate interpretation of the results. The subject is asked to arrange color cards in a row, based on personal preferences. At the beginning of the row is a card with the color most pleasing to the subject. Next - colors that like less (in descending order). As a result, the series should end with the least pleasant color for the subject.

Advantages : speed, simplicity in interpretation, possibility of process automation.

Disadvantages : the possibility of giving socially desirable answers. The technique can not serve as a battery (main).

Picture test

It is very effective, but quite laborious diagnostic method. The candidate for the post should pass a creative task related to the drawing of the object or group of the object ("The non-existent animal", "House, tree, man"). Psychologist evaluated the pressure on the pencil, the location of objects, the geometry of the drawing, accentuation of certain features of the drawing (eyes, structure, plants, animal hair, etc.).

Advantages : very effective projective psychophysiological examination. In the hands of an experienced psychologist becomes a real "psi-microscope". With the help of the figure, a very wide range of psychological parameters is determined. The subject can not give a socially desirable answer,

Disadvantages : the complexity of the process, the impossibility of automation with the help of a computer.

Psychophysiological examination of intellectual abilities

The use of the research of intellectual coefficient (IQ) is a rather controversial moment when applying for a job. Psychologists note that respondents with high rates may be ineffective, and with low - highly effective. And vice versa. So, the methods for determining IQ can not give a full answer to the question of professional suitability. Many businessmen do not take into account this fact, introducing discrimination in the personnel policy of the enterprise on the basis of intellectual abilities. From this they, by the way, lose more than they acquire. But to consider popular techniques is still worth it.

Eysenck's test

The subject is asked to solve a number of problems for a certain period of time (depending on the version of the test). The data received by the psychologist are checked against the key, and the subject gets an assessment of his intellectual abilities. Most of the respondents have intelligence in the range from 90 to 110.

The tests of D. Veksler, J. Raven in obtaining the results and processing are identical to the test of Eysenck.

Advantages: providing an IQ picture in a relatively short time. Possibility of automation of the technique.

Disadvantages : the validity of the methodology for determining proficiency is in question.

Summarizing the above, it should be remembered that the tests do not need to be afraid. They reveal only a part of the data about our psychological characteristics. If the employer sees in the competitor a valuable employee, he will never refuse to provide the necessary space.