Статус профессиональной идентичности как фактор психологической адаптации личности в юношеском возрасте

Abstract

Background. `e diaculties of professional self-determination in a modern transitive society determine the relevance of studying the connection between psychological adaptation and the status of a person’s professional identity, regarded as an indicator of success in solving the key task of development in adolescence. `e value core of professional self-determination poses the issue of the relationship between individual’s value orientations, the level of professional identity, and basic beliefs as an indicator of the level of psychological adaptation. Objective. `e paper aims to study the relationship between the status of a person’s professional identity in adolescence and the characteristics of psychological adaptation. Objectives include studying (1) the relationship between the status of professional identity and the basic beliefs of the individual as an indicator of psychological adaptation; (2) the characteristics of the value orientations of an individual in connection with the status of professional identity and the level of psychological adaptation. Methods. `e World Assumptions Scale (WAS) by R. Yanob-Bulman in the adaptation of M. Padun and A. Kotelnikova; a technique to determine the status of identity in the celd of professional self-determination by D. Marcia, modiced by O. Karabanova and V. Orestova; Portrait Values Questionnaire-Revised (PVQ-R) by Sh. Schwartz were used. Sample. 102 respondents participated in the study: 35.4% are boys, 54.4% are girls aged 16 to 18. Results. `e K-means method was applied. 2 clusters were identiced, dibering in the level of psychological adaptation. Diberences in the level of basic beliefs and value orientations were revealed in groups with the status of dibusion and moratorium, dibusion and achieved identity (Mann-Whitney test, p ≤ 0.05). Diberences in value orientations were revealed between groups with diberent levels of psychological adaptation (Mann — Whitney test, р ≤ 0.05). Conclusion. `e status of professional identity in adolescence is associated with the level of psychological adaptation of the individual. High statuses of identity (achieved identity and moratorium) correspond to a high level of psychological adaptation, identity dibusion corresponds to a low level of it. A high level of psychological well-being and adaptation is determined by the balance of the values of autonomy and self-aarmation and the universal values of social interests and public well-being.