Correlation Between Professional Identity and Life Orientations Among Students of Creative Fields of Study

Abstract

What makes the study relevant is the need to make distinctions between approaches to students of creative areas of study. The article provides the results of an empirical study, which determines the status of professional identity among students of creative fields of study and identifies its correlation with life orientations. The authors define the phenomena of professional identity and life orientations in the psychological science; as well as analyze different positions in the psychological science on the age aspect of students and its correspondence with the stages of professional identity. The study was conducted among students of creative directions of the Irkutsk branch of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S.A. Gerasimov. 40 people participated in the study: 1st and 2nd-year students of the university majoring in “Drama”, “Producing”, “Directing non-fiction and television films” as well as students of a secondary vocational education majoring in “Animation”. The study revealed high indicators of the premature status of professional identity, which manifests itself in less intellectual independence and vagueness of professional goals; it also affirmed the status of “moratorium” — experiencing a crisis, but making attempts to overcome it. There are direct positive connections between the indicators of the “process of life” and all the statuses of identity, achieved identity and all the indicators of life orientations. The closest connections manifested in the scale “Achieved identity”: where the “locus of self control” rs = 0.80; the “process of life” rs = 0.90; and the “goals of life” rs = 0.80.