Socio-psychological characteristics of people who refuse to take the survey using the polygraph

• Main Authors: Kamshukov A.V., Konstantinov V.V.
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education 2017-01-01
• Series: Психология и право
• Subjects: socio-psychological adaptation; disadaptation; the survey using the polygraph; stress; anxiety personality
• Online Access: http://psyjournals.ru/psyandlaw/2016/n4/84526.shtml

The article discusses aspects of the study of socio-psychological characteristics of people who refuse to take the survey using the polygraph. The authors propose to consider the analysis and study of this subject field from the perspective of social psychology, but not within a common psychophysiological interpretations. A survey using polygraph is a complex procedure, as the increasing anxiety of the subjects, and providing stress. Process failure associated with violation of adaptive behavior of individuals, weakness of General adaptation to changing conditions. Scientifically justified and experimentally proved the link between the cancellation of the survey using the polygraph and the transition of adaptation to deadaptation of the personality. The authors consider adaptation and adaptive behavior through the individual's ability to successful socialization, ability to overcome stressful situations and the level of anxiety and disturbing behavior. The article presents objective data, revealing socio-psychological characteristics of people who refuse to undergo testing on a polygraph, their individual psychological characteristics and regularities of the studied phenomenon.