ЛИЧНОСТНЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ЛЮДЕЙ СРЕДНЕГО ВОЗРАСТА, ПОМЕНЯВШИХ ПРОФЕССИЮ

Abstract

The article presents a study of the personal characteristics of middle-aged people who have changed their profession. The study involved 100 people (n=100), who made up two groups – respondents who changed their profession during their lifetime, and people who work all their lives in one profession. The results obtained indicate that respondents who changed their profession have higher indicators than participants from the second group on a number of constructs: dispositional optimism, resilience, tolerance to uncertainty subjective well-being,. The article presents data on the respondents’ attitude to their childhood experience in terms of career prospects, as well as a correlation analysis between the respondents’ retrospective assessment of childhood experience and their current subjective life satisfaction, which revealed a direct relationship between those indicators. In addition, the professional trajectory of the study participants was comprehended in the context of the socio-economic development of our society for the last thirty years, a period when several economic (or political-economic) crises occurred that significantly affected the labor market. The results of the study indicate that the personal resources identified in the study are the most important factors contributing to the constructive passage of professional crises, professional development and success in the new conditions of a rapidly changing reality.