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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.089.021.201704.596-608
The Structural Model of Future Employees̕ Personal and Professional Self-Development
Zhanna G. Garanina
Professor, Chair of Psychology, National Research Mordovia State University (68 Bolshevistskaya St., Saransk 430005, Russia), Ph.D. (Psychology), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1428-1213, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Natalia V. Andronova
Associate Professor, Chair of Psychology, National Research Mordovia State University (68 Bolshevistskaya St., Saransk 430005, Russia), Ph.D. (Psychology), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1909-5575, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lyudmila I. Lashmaykina
Associate Professor, Chair of Psychology, National Research Mordovia State University (68 Bolshevistskaya St., Saransk 430005, Russia), Ph.D. (Psychology), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0848-3871, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Olga E. Maltseva
Senior Lecturer, Chair of General and Social Psychology, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (22 Ozheshko St., Grodno 230023, Belarus), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7564-4025, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Osip Е. Polyakov
Professor, Chair of Mordovian Languages, National Research Mordovia State University (68 Bolshevistskaya St., Saransk 430005, Russia), Ph.D (Philology), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0232-7501, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Introduction: the main purpose of this paper is to present the theoretical and practical aspects of professional and personal self-development of future professionals, the construction of the structural model and the determination of levels of self-development. The study of personal and professional self-development attributes of future professionals is of special interest to modern researchers, as well as for practicing psychologists studying the problem of self-realization and self-improvement in their professional fields. This article discusses the theoretical approaches to the study of the model and structure of personal and professional self- development. It analyses the results of the comparative empirical study of the features of students self-development with various levels of formation of motivational-semantic sphere. The authors carried out the detailed theoretical analysis of the problem of personal and professional self-development. They offer the structural model of the process, including the set of interrelated value-semantic, reflexive and regulatory components. The study revealed that the personal and professional self-development is a comprehensive system based on the active personal transformation being carried out in the course of behavior and activities self-regulation of their behavior, designed to achieve personal and professional goals.
Materials and Methods: diagnostic methods were used to identify the level of self-development and personal qualities of students. Processing of the data was carried out by means of correlation, factor and cluster analysis.
Results: this article considers the results of the empirical study conducted with the help of psycho-diagnostic methods aimed at identifying the level of self-development of future professionals, its structure and features. The scientifically valid results are obtained, allowing to identify the levels of self-development of students as well as to identify factors af fecting the process of self-development of future social sphere specialists.
Discussion and Conclusions: the structural model of the personal-professional self-development includes a set of interconnected components: value-semantic, reflexive and regulative. The main factor influencing the process of personal and professional self- development of future professionals is the indicator of the meaningfulness of life, which is significantly associated with readiness to self-knowledge and selfdevelopment and affect the level of self-development. The desire for self-development can be considered as one of the personal and professional values, which give future professionals the opportunity to feel the meaningfulness of life, satisfaction with the process and its results, and achieve their personal and professional goals. The results of this study have several important implication for practicing psychologists who can broaden the scope of research of self-development and self- identity processes and determine the basic ways of self-realization of the young people potential in their prof essional career.
Keywords: personal and professional self-development, motivation and sense sphere, self-regulation, reflection, self-efficacy, self-actualisation, meaningfulness of life
For citation: Garanina Zh.G., Andronova N.V., Lashmaykina L.I., Maltseva O.E., Polyakov O.E. The structural model of future employees̕ personal and professional self-development. Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2017; 21 (4):596-608. DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.089.021.201704.596-608
Contribution of the authors: Zhanna G. Garanina – developed the concept; initiated the research; methodology development; critical analysis and revision of the text. Natalia V. Andronova – devising research tools (questionnaires); data collection in 2015–2016; preparation of the initial version of the text. Lyudmila I. Lashmaykina – study of the concept; data collection in 2016–2017; formalized data analysis. Olga E. Maltseva – critical analysis and revision of the text; analysis and preparation of initial findings. Osip E. Polyakov – reviewing the relevant literature; revision of the draft.
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
