Indicators Of Successful Self-Revelation In High-School Students

Abstract

The question of professional self-determination in senior high school is the matter of high-priority. The choice of the future direction of professional training is determined by many factors that can be basically divided into two groups: external (objective) and internal (subjective). External factors include, for example, the profession prestige in the modern society and opinion of referents on the upcoming choice. Internal factors include the interests, inclinations and abilities of the senior pupil himself. As a matter of fact, these factors interact continuously, the actualization of ideas about the subjective prerequisites for professional self-determination often occurs under the influence of objective factors. The present article considers the success of self-revelation as a level of correspondence of the training program of the chosen profession to a senior pupil’s ideas about his/her own abilities and intelligence type (according to G.Gardner). The results of the empirical study of high school students show that only half of them could be characterized as those who have successfully disclosed their abilities. Those students show the high self-esteem components such as: will, independence and sense of reality, consistency, high rates of activity and achievement motivation as well as high level of existential fulfillment. This is compared to the students whose ideas about their own abilities and type of intelligence do not coincide with the chosen direction of training, or who haven`t decided on the choice. Whether these indicators can be considered as predictors of the abilities for self-disclosure of a high-school student - the question remains open.