ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL FACTORS IN THE FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL SELF-AWARENESS OF FUTURE PSYCHOLOGISTS

Abstract

The relevance of studying the formation of professional self-awareness of future practical psychologists is due to the growing challenges that accompany their future professional activities.

Professional self-awareness is defined as a multi-component relatively stable integral substructure of the personality, which ensures its professional formation and self-realization in the professional sphere based on the awareness of professional requirements, its capabilities and emotional and value attitude towards itself as a representative of the professional community.

The empirical part of the work contains the results of the ascertaining stage of the study with the participation of 360 students of 1st-4th years of the specialty "Psychology", a favorable growth dynamics was established during professional training of a sample of future psychologists with a high level of formation of a professional self-image and professional self-assessment of potential. The contradictory nature of the formation of professional self-assessment of the result due to a significant number of carriers of an inadequate (high or low) level, as well as the prevalence of the problem of an insufficient level of communicative self-control among psychology graduates, was revealed.

While studying the internal factors of the formation of professional self-awareness, it was found that the main motives for choosing a profession by the surveyed psychology students were the desire to improve their knowledge of psychology, help people and build a successful career. It is recorded that professionally oriented and cognitive motives dominate among the educational and professional motivations of future psychologists. The hierarchy of terminal values was headed by values favorable for future professional activity – self-confidence, happiness of others and creativity. Caring, tolerance, broad outlook and efficiency in business were found to be important instrumental values for psychology students.

It was found that the majority of students rated their familiarity with the professional profile of a psychologist as high, but did not associate it with professional self-awareness. Students imagine the psychologist as a self-actualized social introvert with developed intelligence and professional competence who accepts himself or herself and others. Competence is the dominant educational paradigm in modern domestic higher education institutions, so it is proven that the formation of professional self-awareness of future psychologists occurs spontaneously, as an auxiliary accompanying vector of the formation of their professional competence.

It was recorded that the leading external socio-psychological factors in the formation of the professional self-awareness of psychology students are the contents of the professional profile of a psychologist, the guidance of teachers and examples of the work of professionals. It was revealed that the most influential internal factors in the formation of professional self-awareness of future psychologists are their self-concept, educational and professional motivation and hierarchy of value orientations.

The appropriateness of purposeful psychological support for the formation of professional self-awareness of psychology students has been proved in two implementation vectors - motivational and educational work with teachers and developmental and corrective activities with students. Approbation of programs for the development of professional self-awareness of future psychologists by means of actualization of their personal resources confirmed the effectiveness of the application of social-psychological training based on the signs of increasing the level of development of structural components and actualization of the functions of professional self-awareness of psychologist graduates as a leading component of their readiness for professional activity.