The creativity peculiarities of students majoring in psychology with different status of professional identity

Abstract

This article examines the problem of professional identity of modern students majoring in psychology, as well as the problem of creativity as one of the essential universal competencies of a modern specialist. The author reviews the question of the need for accompanying the process of formation of professional identity of the students majoring in psychology. The object of this research is the professional identity of such students, while the subject is the creativity peculiarities of students majoring in psychology with different status of professional identity. The article provides the results of one of the research stages on the role of creativity in formation of professional identity of psychology students. The sampling involved 155 students majoring in psychology from Novosibirsk State Technical University and Siberian State Transport University. The conducted empirical research reveals the creativity peculiarities of psychology students with different status of professional identity. The authors also assumed that the manifestations of imagery and verbal creativity differ among the students with different status of professional identity. The students with the dominant achieved status of professional identity demonstrate the highest indicators by the parameters of imagery creativity: degree of development and originality (20 circles). For the students with the dominant status of pseudo-identity, the manifestations of imagery and verbal creativity are not typical. The acquired results allow understanding the peculiarities of manifestation of creativity among psychology students with different status of professional identity on a deeper level.