Психология и социология/7. Общая психология

 

Ph(D) Myloslavska E, Dombrovska K

Kharkov University of Humanities People’s Ukrainian Academy, Ukraine

Responsibility as professionally significant quality of a future specialists

 

One of the criteria of efficiency organization of the vocational education is personal and professional development of graduates who largely determine its competitiveness as a specialist in the labor market.

          Personal and professional development of students in higher education is a purposeful process of comprehensive training of a student to work, which is based on a reasoned and systematic self-development and self-realization as individual, person, subject of activity and individuality. [1] The success of this process is determined by the student's understanding of its role as an equal entity and the level of his activity.

Personal and professional development of students in high school depends on the meanings and values that they find in their professional activities. In the course of vocational education the problem of desire activation for self-knowledge is distinguished. Awareness of their qualities, abilities, capabilities development contributes to the richness of content of training activities and enrichment of semantic relationships. Availability and awareness of important goals, ideas, meaning, that is a substantial component of professional orientation is an important condition for professional and personal development of the student. [5]

         The importance of the individual activity, of awareness and acceptance of personal responsibility for their professional development is seen as part of constructivist theory of career. M. Savikasom and E. Porfeli introduced the concept of "capacity to career adaptation » (career adaptability), which is defined as a person's ability to self-regulate her professional conduct, taking into account her own capabilities and abilities, professional requirements and environmental changes.

According to this concept of professional development success depends on the development of personal constructs:

• care, concern about her professional development (concern) - reflects the orientation and extent of participation of the individual in the process of planning her future career;

• Control (control) - shows the degree in which a person feels responsible for building her career, the willingness to take personal responsibility in relation to her professional development, demonstrating self-discipline, willingness to make an effort and persevere.

• curiosity (curiosity) - the study of the world of occupations and the necessary requirements for various professions, research (knowledge) of her own abilities, interests, and identify the corresponding appropriate professional orientation and job opportunities.

• confidence (confidence) - reflects the belief of the individual in her ability to make the right decision about their career decisions and occupational choices, and the ability to implement it in life. [6]

          The most important criterion of awareness and productivity of professional growth is its ability to find personal meaning in professional work, own design, create her professional life, responsible decisions about the choice of profession, occupation and place of work [2].

          Thus, we can conclude that one of the psychological factors determining the success of the personal and professional development is a graduate of the level of responsibility: the students' understanding of their responsibility for the process and the result of learning, their professional choice and activities.

          The importance of the adoption of the individual responsibility for her professional development manifests in early adolescence, when the individual is faced with the choice of life path and professional self-determination. By the end of the period of study at the university acquired relative autonomy, independence, changing the status of a child - an adult. [4]

E.F. Zeer defines professional responsibility - it is the adoption by a person of responsibility for the quality of professional development and realization of her professional and psychological potential [2].

While examining the components of the structure of personal responsibility symptom A.I. Kocharian identifies its five types [3]:

• «adherence to principle» - responsibility takes the form of desire to defend stubbornly her position (principle), while not taking into account the factor of private reality (situation and common sense) and sacrificing personal interests;

• «self-affirmation» - responsible behavior is presented as an opportunity to prove herself and to others her own consistency;

• «normativity»: responsibility is the observance of internalized rules and norms of behavior;

• «ethics»: responsibility is equivalent to morality;

• «self-sacrifice» - a variant of responsibility, in which the individual realizes her ambitions through service to others (boss, partner, children, friends, etc.).

          There are two variants of functional responsibility ("authentic" and "inauthentic"), which have different emotional overtones. "Authentic responsibility" (a type of responsibility "ethics») is accompanied by the emotion of joy and reflects a genuine trend to be the author's own life, to answer for it. "Inauthentic" responsibility (types of "self-assertion", "normative" and "sacrifice") is associated with feelings of shame, guilt, fear of punishment, and others. Type "in principle" occupies an intermediate position between the authentic and the inauthentic versions of responsibility, as its regulation is not unique, since, on the one hand, is associated with the emotion of interest, and on the other - is not associated with the emotion of joy.Hence a successful personal and professional development of the student can contribute to the development of authentic responsibility with a predominance of symptoms "ethics."

V.P. Pryadein distinguished responsibility conditions that defined responsible behavior [4]:

1. A person can held responsible to the extent that she is free in her actions, and is truly free only in the realization of her own purpose and is responsible only for what is within her direct or indirect influence. Where there is no choice, there is no responsibility; there may be only the executive.

2. A responsible person does not shift the responsibility on others, and is looking for a possible cause of failure in her.

3. Without external manifestations and her realization in concrete deeds and actions a person cannot make a judgment about the presence of the person responsible. One of the main differences between responsible actions from all others, carried the subject is the presence of the monitoring and evaluation made not only by the subject of the action, but also by individuals, groups, agencies, authorities and society in general.

          Creating opportunities for the above conditions of formation of responsibility in the cultural and educational environment of high school greatly contributed to the development of students' personality traits required for interpersonal interaction and creative construction of future professional activity.

 

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