THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE FORMATION OF LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF THE OFFICER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE

The article analyzes the importance and role of emotional intelligence in human life, in particular the officer of the National Guard of Ukraine. It is substantiated that emotional intelligence determines the formation of the structure of psychological culture of personality in different activities, especially military, mediating a person's emotional attitude to realized activity. It is argued that emotional intelligence in the structure of psychological culture of personality performs evaluative-prognostic, emotional-communicative, regulatory, motivating, reflexive-corrective, etc. Functions, the specificity of which is due to its affective-intellectual interconnections with cognitive, value-semantic characteristics of personality. The difficulty with emotions management and their comprehension is emphasized. It is indicated that the optimal level of psychological culture, and emotional intelligence in particular, mainly reduce emotional burnout in stressful types of military activity. Emotional intelligence is presented in the regulation of decision-making in the conditions of interpersonal interactions, modeled in the activities of NGU officers as follows: it is related to the assessment of the acceptability of the results and included in the correlation of such components of personal choice as the focus on solving the situation of uncertainty and taking into account its emotional context. Emotional intelligence in the military, including NGU officers, is associated with such personal variables as academic intelligence, rationality, risk readiness, self -regulation properties; These variables become predictors depending on the stage of solving the prognostic problems. dynamics of changes in uncertainty conditions. Five (extraversion, harmony, honesty, emotional stability, openness of experience) are associated with the scales of EI, but do not act as predictors of multi -stage choices. It is emphasized that the leadership in the military sphere plays a special role, as there is an urgent need for highly qualified officers who are able to successfully perform combat tasks and skillfully manage their unit. The State Program for the Development of the Armed Forces of Ukraine aims to acquire their ability to effectively respond to threats to national security in the military sphere, the defense of Ukraine, to protect its sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability. At the same time, researching the topic of military leadership in Ukraine is just beginning.