The Personality Behavioral Failures In the Rigidity-Flexibility Continuum

The purpose of this study was to expand the understanding of behavioural failure in science by exploring the contribution of personal rigidity and flexibility to the behavioral failure proneness. To achieve this goal, the English-language Failure Proneness questionnaire was adapted into Russian, as this methodology is the most comprehensive tool for making researches on the behavioral failure proneness and has no analogues in Russian psychology. The adapted Russian-language modification of the original structure of the Failure Proneness questionnaire (FP) consisted of 12 items and 4 main scales: ‘Procedural violations’, ‘Temporal errors’, ‘Lapses’, ‘Non-compliance violations’. This structure showed consistency with the empirical data of the Russian sample and also demonstrated significant indicators of factor, convergent-divergent validity, and test-retest reliability. Though the regression models obtained during the empirical study of the contribution of rigidity and flexibilty to the behavioral failure proneness were significant (p < 0.001), their predictive power was only 1.9 - 10.6%, which suggests the need for further researches to explore more significant predictors of the behavioral failure proneness.