УДК 37.041-057.4

DOI: 10.15507/Inted.75.018.201402.025

 

DETERMINANTS OF FUTURE GRADUATES’ SELF-DEVELOPMENT

Zh. G. Garanina
(Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russia)

The article is concerned with characteristics of professional self-development among prospective university graduates. Personal and professional self-development is viewed as a holistic self-developing system based on activity self-transformation of a personality, caused by needs for self-transformation and personal growth aimed at achieving professionally significant objectives. The paper examines theoretical approaches to this problem, defines self-development determinants ensuring its success. Determinants impacting self-development include motivational, value-semantic, reflexive and regulatory factors. The paper draws on empirical study results of professional self-development determinants among prospective university graduates. Identified is the relationship between the level of self-development and a meaningfulness of life, motivational readiness for self-development and self-actualisation level. It is proved that level of self-development is also influenced by prospective graduates’ self-reflection.

Keywords: professional self-development; determinants of self-development; professional education; internal and external conflicts; motivation and meaning sphere; reflection.

About the author:

Garanina Zhanna Grigor’yevna, professor, Chair of psychology, Ogarev Mordovia State University (68, Bolshevistskaya Str., Saransk, Russia), Kandidat nauk (PhD) degree holder in psychological sciences, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For citation: Garanina Zh. G. Determinanty professional’nogo samorazvitija budushhih specialistov [Determinants of future graduates’ self-development]. Integracija obrazovanija [Integration of Education]. 2014, no. 2 (75), pp. 25–31. DOI: 10.15507/Inted.075.018.201402.025

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