PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS OF DIFFERENT SPECIALIZATIONS JOURNALISTS

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Published: Apr 4, 2022

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the finding of differences in personal traits and professional qualities between journalists’ of different specializations as reporters, publicists, presenters and group with mixed types of professional activity. First, differences in temperament structures were found. Presenters had the highest indicators of social ergicity and plasticity, thus their nervous processes, inquisitiveness and ability to switch higher than in other groups. Second, the most developed qualities of emotional stability were in reporters that is clear because they should work in the field, sometimes in difficult situations and circumstances. Third, the highest level of social intelligence was in presenters again. The group of presenters also shows the most developed values of status and management, communication and health.

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Bakhvalova, A. (2022). PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS OF DIFFERENT SPECIALIZATIONS JOURNALISTS. Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences, (2), 31-38. https://doi.org/10.30525/2592-8813-2021-2-4
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Keywords

personal traits, presenters, professional qualities, publicists, reporters

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