Personality Development in the Course of Professional Activity

Abstract

The actuality of the work is presupposed by the fact that psychological research of interconnection between a person and a profession is of great demand now. It has become an important field of study due to several reasons. First of all it is necessary to have a clear vision of psychological rules of the subject of the activity when he is developing. It is important to specify the role of individual and psychological peculiarities of the person involved in this process. The field of study also concerns the problem of adaptation of the person to the professional activity. The article is aimed at the generalizing of results conducted during long term research of the personality in the process of professional activity with the target of revealing development prospects. The main method used was psychognosis of psychodiagnostics of individual psychological peculiarities of the personality. On the basis of professiographic research and results of psychodiagnostics we conclude in the article that psychological peculiarities of the personality are different either in the level of intensity or structure at the different levels of professional activity. If we look at the professional development from two angles—as the development and as the destruction at the same time then diagnostics and evaluation of the individual psychological peculiarities of the personality at different stages of professional activity could be corrected to avoid destruction. The article could be useful for practitioners psychologists, those who work in the HR sphere.