The Development Of Students’ Professional Self-Concept

Abstract

Formation of a professional self-concept in conjunction with the formation of a professional position is a necessary condition for the subsequent and successful professional activity. The purpose of this research was to study the dynamics of the development of professional self-concept of students - future specialists in the field of psychology and education. An experiment was carried out aimed at revealing the level of the formation of professional self-concept of 1st-year, 3rd-year, and 4th-year students, an analysis of the obtained data is presented. The author made a statistical check of the received data, made conclusions about the revealed indicators. It was revealed that the fact of studying at a university does not contribute to the effective formation of a professional self-concept (subjects of all years demonstrate low values of the indicators of professional self-concept and insignificant and unsatisfactory dynamics of those indicators from year to year. There was made the assumption that the effective development of the professional self-concept is possible only with the combined effect of the psychological and pedagogical conditions of the organization of education and upbringing. Thus, there was developed a program devoted to the formation of professional self-concept of students - future specialists in the field of psychology and education.