RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-REGULATION AND PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS

Abstract

Introduction . Today, the problem of personal planning and realization of the individual professional future has become very urgent in the conditions of uncertainty of the social and economic environment development, fast updating of technologies and transformation of the world of professions. Therefore, skills of self-regulation and attraction of all psychological abilities of the individual are required to build up personal professional perspective. The aim of the publication is to present the results of the pilot study of the relationship of self-regulation parameters and components of personal professional perspective at the stage of vocational training. Methodology and research methods . The methodological basis of the research is subject-activity approach to the study of the phenomena “professional self-determination”. To obtain empirical data, V. I. Morosanova’s questionnaire “The Style of Self-Regulation of Behaviour” and the scheme of creation of the personal professional plan developed by E. A. Klimov and added with the valuable and moral components of self-determination offered by N. S. Pryazhnikov were applied. Mathematical-statistical processing of the results was carried out by means of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test was used for the comparative analysis; the Spearman’s rank correlation test was used for the correlation analysis. Results and scientific novelty . In the present article, the idea of self-determination of the subject in the professional sphere is discussed at the methodological level. Creation of personal professional perspective is shown as practical actions for predicting of the professional future under the developed behavioural self-regulation structures of the personality. The relationship of self-regulation and professional perspective (as the measured parameters of professional self-determination) was revealed at the empirical level on the sample of students of the Sverdlovsk Regional Teachers Training College. The distinctions of separate components degree of self-regulation and personal professional plan are found out among students of different years of studies. The essential relationships between the established indicators are designated. Practical significance . The research results can become a part of scientifically based concepts of regularities in the relationship of self-regulation process as the personal structure development in early ontogenesis, and formation of the professional future image at the stage of vocational training. The materials of the publication can be useful for teachers and lecturers of professional education and experts who are engaged in professional orientation work and psycho-pedagogical support for students of higher education institutions and colleges.