There is a need to determine a wider range of factors to anticipate officer behavior in situations of
complex interpersonal interaction together with guidelines for self-knowledge and self-development
of professional competencies. This study examines the emotional intelligence of future naval officers
during probation on ships as a predictor of their success in military service. The article shows that
it is possible to predict the results of internships of cadets of a military university on ships through
the partial elements and the overall characteristic of their emotional intelligence. One hundred
cadets were examined using the N. Hall methodology “Diagnosis of emotional intelligence (Fetiskin,
Kozlova and Manuylova variant), the “Progressive Matrices” test by J. Raven, and expert evaluations
of the results of professional internships. The study evaluated the reliability of the distribution of
indicators of the components of emotional intelligence “Emotional awareness”, “Managing your
emotions”, “Self-motivation”, “Empathy” and “Recognizing the emotions of other people” and
correlation analysis of the relationship of the integral level of emotional and non-verbal intelligence
with the success of the training of future officers on ships. It concludes that psychological predictors
of emotional intelligence and its partial elements predicts the results of professional activity due to
self-regulation, self-control, and management of the emotional states of naval officers with fairly
high reliability. The predictors identified contribute to the development of targeted corrective and
preventive programs for the development of emotional intelligence among naval university cadets.