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Peculiarities of professional culture development in modern youth
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Iryna Hrytsiuk, Lyudmyla Magdysyuk, Maria Zamelyuk, & Iryna Podoliak
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Iryna Hrytsiuk
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, Lyudmyla Magdysyuk
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, Maria Zamelyuk
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, & Iryna Podoliak
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Name and address of the corresponding author: Iryna Hrytsiuk,
Associate Professor of the Department of Practical and Clinical Psychology,
Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University.
Contacts: hrytsiuk_ira@ukr.net, gr.iralutsk@gmail.com
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In 2001 she graduated from Lutsk Pedagogical School named after Yaroslav Galan. In 2006 she
received a master's degree with honors from Volyn State University named after Lesya Ukrainka,
majoring in psychology, teacher of psychology. In 2007 she was enrolled in graduate school at Lesya
Ukrainka University. From 2004-2010 worked as a teacher of individual education. In 2013 she
defended her dissertation in the field of pedagogical and age psychology.
2
In 1996 she graduated from Lutsk Pedagogical School named after Yaroslav Galan. She received a
diploma with honors in "Primary Education". In 1999 she graduated with honors from the Lesia
Ukrainka East European National University, receiving a full higher education in "Social Pedagogy" and
qualified as a social pedagogue, teacher of pedagogy. From 1999 to 2008 she worked as a primary
school teacher and social educator. Since April 15, 2008 - Methodist of the full-time educational
department of the Faculty of Geography of the Lesya Ukrainka National University. She defended her
Ph.D. thesis in 2015, majoring in general psychology, history of psychology.
3
In 1991 she graduated from Pedagogical School named after Agatengel Krymsky with a degree in
Preschool Education. In 2011 received a master's degree from the Lesia Ukrainka East European
National University, majoring in master's degree in preschool education, educator of preschool
children, teacher of pedagogical disciplines. In 2012 she was enrolled in graduate school at Lesya
Ukrainka University. From 1991 to the present I have been working as an educator at the «Sonechko»
preschool in Torchyn. In 2017 she defended her dissertation in the field - theory, and methods of
vocational education.
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In 2001 she graduated from Vinnytsia State Medical University. E. Pirogov, majoring in "Medical
Affairs", 2001-2002 passed an internship as a pediatrician at Zhmerynka Central District Hospital. From
2002 to 2003 he was a district pediatrician of the Lutsk City Children's Polyclinic. From 2003 to 2008
she worked as a neurologist at the Lutsk City Children's Polyclinic and as a consultant at the Lutsk
Maternity Hospital. Since 2008 she has been appointed a teacher of neurology and psychiatry at the
Volyn Medical Institute.
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Annotation
The article is designed to describe the features of the formation of the professional culture of
modern youth in Ukraine. We strive to reveal the value orientations, interests, and approaches to the
choice of professions in our country. To study and analyze the experience of our country, especially in
the western region, in the formation of future professionals. This experience will take into account the
impact of this issue on the formation of guidelines for professional culture in a changing and dynamic
world. After all, not only in Ukraine but all over the world, it is difficult to predict which professions
will be relevant in the future. It is even more difficult to predict what knowledge, skills, and abilities
need to be formed in future professionals so that they are satisfied with their skills, their own
professional status, see their prospects for development. The results of our survey were obtained on
the basis of a direct survey of 60 students of Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, who are
studying in the first and fourth years of the Faculty of Psychology and Sociology. Moreover, it was
important for us to conduct a comparative analysis of young people's values and their characteristics,
in particular, the volitional component, to understand whether values change during education and
how much our young people are willing to take responsibility for their professional development and
professional culture.
The methodological basis of our article is the provisions of psychological science, which relate
to a greater generalization of the results of theoretical aspects of the psychological approach, namely:
the essence and development of personality as an active subject of professional activity, features of
professionalization of future professionals and their values.
We came to the conclusion that professional culture is a complex integrative factor that
combines interdependent holistic phenomena, such as axiological (value), operational, and personal-
creative.
The value of this article is that our study can help the Department of Youth Policy in Ukraine,
what to look for when developing school curricula and what aspects of modern professional culture
will allow young people to be effectively implemented professionally both in Ukraine and outside it.
Keywords: youth, professional culture, value orientations, the psychology of culture, professional
formation.
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The modern system of higher education in Ukraine needs to be reformed. Because it is, to a
greater extent, only at the level of theory, declaratively, designed to create appropriate conditions for
the training of a competent specialist. In a dynamic, rapidly changing world, in conditions of fierce
competition in the labor market, the uncertainty of the relevance of certain professions, it is difficult
for young people to plan their professional future. Therefore, a young specialist, in our opinion, should
be focused on continuous professional development and self-improvement, which will provide him in
the future with a high level of competitiveness, professional mobility, the productivity of professional
activities. The young specialist should pay attention to his own values, personal beliefs, and qualities
of character, which will influence the formation of his competitiveness as a specialist not only in
Ukraine but also in the world.
Unfortunately, a significant number of Ukrainian youths, already entering a university or other
vocational education institution, do not plan to work in their chosen specialty. Due to this situation,
today in Ukraine, there is a shortage of a significant number of specialists. This phenomenon has been
observed in Ukraine since the 1990s, since the beginning of our state's independence. The peculiarity
of this phenomenon is based on the desire to obtain a diploma at any cost, but it does not take into
account the true desires of the young man, his skills, and aspirations. Factors that currently prevail in
the choice of profession among modern youth in Ukraine are fashionable popular areas of training, the
financial capacity of the family, the desire to meet the expectations of parents or other important
adults. The lack of a conscious choice of profession is a big problem for young people. In order to
qualitatively change the situation in Ukraine, we carried out a theoretical and empirical justification of
the importance of such factors as the formation of professional position, professional orientation, and
professional culture of young professionals.
The dynamics of social change and social processes in the professional sphere, require not only
mastering the necessary knowledge base and skills in accordance with the specifics of the chosen
specialty but also professionally necessary qualities and practical skills, which is a prerequisite for
effective professional functions at any stage of professional development and is the key to successful
professional development. This process is difficult because it requires taking into account the specifics
of student age as an important stage of personal development, identifying the essence of stages and
determinants of becoming a professional in a particular field, determining the role and place of
abilities, interests, motives and individual characteristics in the formation of professionally important
qualities of a specialist, as well as optimizing the conditions for successful professional development.
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That is why it is so important to form a professional position of a young person. This would be
reflected in the attitude of a young person to a particular profession, as well as form a vision of
themselves in this activity. The professional position must satisfy the future specialist both from the
standpoint of value orientations, take into account the individual style and approach to work, material
satisfaction from the activity, and satisfaction with their professional status. The specialist must
understand that only his abilities and diligence - is the key to competitive professional development.
That only the development of knowledge, skills, and abilities can contribute to his professional growth
and career growth. Having provided such competitive conditions on the labor market, it is possible to
form a different approach and attitude to the choice of profession by modern young people in Ukraine.
As a result of a theoretical review of the problem in the psychological literature, it was possible
to outline the main categorical and conceptual aspects of professional training. According to many
researchers on this topic, this process should take place in a new personality-oriented paradigm, which
will intensify and develop professionally important personal and professional qualities, create space
for the development of practical skills, and allow self-realization, acquire a professional culture of
communication. T. Kudryavtsev considers professional formation as a process of personal
development from the beginning of the formation of professional intentions to self-realization in
professional activities (Kudryavtsev, 1986). S. Rubinstein considers professional orientation "as a
dynamic trend that determines human activity as a motive" (Rubinstein, 1999). From the point of view
of O. Leontiev, orientation is a system of relatively stable motives (Leontiev, 1983). Professional
orientation is also considered in the context of the general orientation of the individual, namely as part
of professional development, and is interpreted as a system of personal qualities that determine a
stable, conscious, active attitude to a particular type of work (Naumenko, 1997), as forms of student
activity (Zakharova, 1991).
For effective professional development, it is necessary to give young people the opportunity
to experiment, change, combine different activities, achieve goals. After all, if work is considered as a
goal of a person's life, then, accordingly, the goals are constantly changing, they are different in
content, they have different values and relevance. But that is the conscious life of man. And as the
famous Ukrainian pedagogue and philosopher K. Ushinsky noted, without a purpose a person's life
becomes small and empty. In his writings, he argued that by depriving a person of purpose, he will live,
languish or raise his hands. This reveal, according to the scientist, the desire of man to conscious,
purposeful activity, characteristic of its essence (Ushinsky, 1986).
Also, in the structure of the professional's personality, special importance belongs to the
professional culture of the individual. It has its place both as a subject of study and as a factor
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important for explaining, understanding the behavior of employees, and especially future
professionals, as people with special knowledge and skills in any field, to be highly qualified
professionals with broad erudition and high general cultural level in accordance with the global
challenges of today. The phenomenon of professional culture has been studied by many leading
specialists in the field of psychology, sociology of labor, economic sociology, and sociology of culture
(N. Krylova, N. Lukashevich, D. Markevich, G. Sokolova, etc.). "In the second half of XX century.
professional culture (as part of the general culture) is already considered not only as a form of human
activity but also as the most important aspect of personal life, as a social activity consisting of
interdependent holistic phenomena that are not limited to a certain set of knowledge, skills, and
abilities" (Virna, 2003). However, studies of professional culture often provide a simplified definition,
and there is no single point of view on the content and scope of this concept.
Researchers refer to the definition of professional culture in terms of the needs of society in
the cultural level of people engaged in a particular professional activity. It consists of raising the
professional activity of each person to the general norms of performing a certain type of work.
Undoubtedly, being an important indicator of the social maturity of the individual, professional culture
is a set of personal knowledge, skills, qualities that determine the readiness to realize their essential
strengths in a particular field of social work. Understanding the concept of the significance of culture
is much more difficult than measuring this significance. Therefore, in any study of professional culture,
there is a problem of establishing a link between the external manifestations of culture and the values
that underlie it. It is necessary to solve the problem of choosing the measuring indicators of
professional culture to obtain objective information. Due to the fact that the process of forming the
professional culture of a specialist is complex, it is impossible to find an indicator that would allow
measuring this phenomenon in an integrated way. Thus, a set of indicators is needed (Druzhinina,
2011).
Under the criteria for the formation of the professional culture of the specialist are the
essential features that indicate the achievement of a particular level of formation of professional
culture. Level - is the degree of formation of professional culture, a certain result of development;
criteria - level meters. There is a certain dynamic relationship between these levels, if you open it, you
can develop the most optimal system of criteria. In modern research, the structural components of
professional culture include: axiological (value), operational and personal-creative. In order to fully
master all the components of professional culture, a specialist must develop throughout life. This
approach, with its purposeful use, is gradually becoming a style of socially and professionally oriented
thinking of the specialist, in the structure of which the values of a culture are actualized and
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systematically organized. Possessing it, the future specialist acts as a carrier of progressive social
consciousness, general and professional culture.
In addition, there are two aspects to the structure of professional culture: the first
characterizes the way the subject interacts with the tools and the object of work, as well as the degree
of his readiness for a particular activity. It includes such elements as professional interest, knowledge,
skills, and abilities, including the style of professional thinking. The other side is an integral
characteristic of the consciousness and self-consciousness of the subject of professional culture, moral
and ideological, and aesthetic preconditions of activity. Professional consciousness is a kind of
reflection of reality, which accumulates the whole set of algorithms, norms, values, and language
inherent in a separate type of professional activity (Dudarenko, 2013).
According to the above material, professional culture can be considered at different levels of
development. The initial level can be conditionally described as informational. Here the degree of
formation of the system of professional knowledge and views is not yet wide enough, professional
abilities are at the stage of formation. Attitudes toward work can be narrowed by utilitarian factors.
The higher the level of knowledge and skills, the wider the experience, the more likely it is that a person
in his work can reach certain heights. The higher level is characterized by a broad professional outlook,
and a large amount of professional knowledge, interests, and skills, and a creative understanding of
the production situation as a problem, and the ability to solve it productively, originally, effectively
(Ilyin, 2011).
The high level of formation of professional culture is determined by two characteristics:
general and special. The general professional culture of a specialist consists in the unity of conviction
in the social significance of work and one's profession, a developed sense of professional pride;
diligence and efficiency; entrepreneurship, energy, and initiative; readiness to efficiently, quickly, and
efficiently solve emerging production problems; free possession of the norms of scientific organization
of labor; knowledge of management theory and basics of social psychology; organizational skills;
readiness and interest in mastering the basics of related specialties, in expanding professional
experience. The special professional culture of specialists of different profiles includes qualities that
differ significantly even within one profile. To reflect this set of qualities are narrow special sections of
professiograms (Hrytsiuk, 2013).
The foundations of both professional and general culture are laid by comprehensive training
of specialists, which includes: fundamental methodological and ideological training; extensive
humanitarian training; theoretical and practical training in specialized disciplines; creative training in
the specialty; training in the field of research and development work, the formation of skills of
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independent creative activity. These main areas of training include a number of interdependent, more
partial forms of training: economic, mathematical, sociological, socio-psychological, pedagogical,
managerial, legal, environmental, and others. Their scope and content are focused on the specialty
and correlate with the needs of each industry in society (Zeyer, 2003).
That is, the functions of professional culture, which are due to its specificity and at the same
time are a value manifestation: the formation of a sense of moral responsibility; strict adherence to
the established positive stereotype of behavior; development of moral validity of official relations;
readiness to perform official duties; developing a culture of professional action; prevention of
professional deformation; warnings against bureaucracy. Thus, in the professional culture of a
specialist, we trace the same structural chain or complex system of elements, namely: professional
thinking, professional interest, professional knowledge, skills, abilities, professional experience, the
degree of readiness of a person for a particular activity, professional worldview, professional skills,
adaptability to the professional environment, professional morality, etc. The modern worker is
required to clearly imagine the moral meaning, value, consequences of their activities, to have a
holistic worldview, economically, ecologically developed thinking, to have a culture of communication,
knowledge of the legal system of society, skills of organization of production (management) and others
(Dutkevich, 2007).
Thus, we can conclude that professional culture occupies a special place in the structure of
personality culture because in the process of professional activity personality culture acquires its
comprehensive and effective implementation. Moreover, in such activities, all kinds of personality
culture eventually accumulate. Elements of different types of cultures that are part of the professional
culture of a specialist (as a subculture) have a certain hierarchy depending on specialization and
professional activity, as well as on specific tasks solved by a specialist in a particular life situation (I.
Sabatovska, 2011). Professional culture provides the necessary level of professional functions and the
possibility of further self-improvement of the specialist. It is manifested through the unity of personal
and professional qualities of the individual, the degree of mastery of his achievements and professional
competencies, socio-professional mobility, which contributes to social and spiritual development in
terms of entering the European educational space. Today there is a need to study, define and analyze
this set of qualities that are formed in higher education and undergo further improvement, are applied
and implemented in employment (Sabatovska, 2002).
A wide range of directions in the study of culture exists in modern scientific psychology:
"psychology of culture in the structure of the humanities"; various aspects of the origin, formation and
functioning of culture; the relationship between the processes of mental reflection and the creation
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of cultural values; ontopsychological aspects of culture; creativity and self-creation of subjects as a
source of culture; man as a subject and object of inculturation (formation of mental and personal
qualities in the process of individual development of cultural heritage and the dependence of all
activities on its mental regulators); the problem of "dialogue of cultures"; reasons for inadequate
reflection of the forms and content of culture; mental health and integrity of the individual depending
on the balance of the impact of the cultural environment; psychological substantiation of the need to
improve the content and forms of mass communication; psychological conditions for overcoming the
disintegration of personality value systems during a crisis of a certain type of culture "(Rybalka, 2003).
In the context of the development of professional culture, an important internal condition for
the development of personality is its openness. The concept of "openness" is interpreted as a personal
quality that determines the professional mobility of the specialist, the ability to creatively master
various activities, the restructuring of existing stereotypes (Bondarenko, 1996). In this regard, there is
an urgent problem of finding methods, forms, and tools that would promote the development of
personal openness as a necessary condition for the formation of professional identifications of future
professionals. The solution to this problem can be facilitated by the reorientation of higher education
to the paradigm of personality-centered learning because it is personality-oriented education that can
shape the personality, its inner readiness, and ability to self-development, self-improvement.
Developing a personal approach is a very complex theoretical and practical problem. After all,
the humanistic approach makes it possible to perceive a person as an "open opportunity" for self-
actualization. Within this direction, man is seen as unique integrity, which is characterized by a certain
degree of freedom from external determination due to the values by which it is guided (Bondarenko,
1996). Of great importance is the implementation of the system of basic principles for improving the
system of higher education and giving it a creative, humanistic, and advanced character. In particular,
S. Markov identifies such aspects as a priority and imperative creativity, humanistic learning,
democratic learning, the priority of fundamental and methodological knowledge, dialogic learning,
problem-based learning, the variability of learning, individualization of learning, activation of
independent work of students, pragmatic learning, application of the latest information technologies
and technical means of education, culturological principle, valeological principle, development of the
psychological culture of the higher school (Markov, 2003).
To practically realize all these stages of becoming a specialist, the future specialist must clearly
and confidently navigate the social and natural phenomena, phenomena of science and culture. He
must be deeply aware of the role and place of his activities and systems in the world cultural channel,
in its historical patterns and ethnographic forms, in a combination of deep fundamental theoretical
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knowledge and careful practical training that will promote the development of his professional culture.
It is also necessary to take into account the culture of emotions, intelligence, behavior, communication,
appearance. Remember that professional culture cannot exist in isolation without taking into account
moral and aesthetic aspects. After all, they function interconnected, in inseparable unity. And another
important factor that determines successful activity at today's stage of development is creativity. It is
creativity, the ability to work in a team, to build effective interaction - increase the level of
professionalism, and to some extent, psychological culture in society. The creative nature of culture
offers all the components of communication, namely: modeling of the client's personality and the
consequences of communication.
Based on the theoretical analysis of this issue, and to test the theoretical concept, we
conducted a survey of students of Volyn National University, studying at the Faculty of Psychology and
Sociology, respectively, in the first year (average age of respondents 18 years) and fourth-year students
(average age - 23.5 years). The total number of respondents is 60 people. To ensure the ethics of the
study, the survey was conducted in a confidential manner and subject to voluntary participation. The
questionnaire concerned the actual value orientations of future specialists (Table 1) and their
characterological features.
To achieve the goal and perform the tasks we used the following methods: theoretical
(analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, systematization of scientific literature on the study of
professional development and professional culture of future professionals); empirical (conversation,
observation, testing with the use of methods "Diagnosis of the individual structure of value
orientations of the individual" (S. Bubnova), to identify the real structure of value orientations of the
individual and the method of A. Khokhlov (modernized M. Yantsur) "Methods of studying the volitional
organization of personality."
Discussion of results. Based on a generalized understanding of value orientations, we can
conclude that this is a selective attitude of the carrier to the value, which can be a real subject of
meeting the needs of the individual or social community. The life experience of people accumulates in
the value orientation. It is the presence of established value orientations that testifies to a person's
maturity as a person. They are manifested in activities, including professional, and human behavior.
They are a kind of indicator of hierarchies of preferences that a person gives to material or spiritual
values in the process of his life. Value orientation, formed at the level of beliefs, is adequately
manifested in real human behavior and activities.
Therefore, human activity is inseparable from the value orientation, which is based on value
ideas. Value orientation is always individual. In contrast, value notions, although they seem to a person
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purely individual, in fact, are always typical representations of certain social groups, which are
represented by this individual. They are external to a particular individual and are only appropriated
by him as a result of their assimilation. In this way, the mechanism of interrelation and interaction of
the individual and society, individual and general, internal and external is provided. A peculiar model
of the formation of a person's value orientation is his life plans, which are the prerogative of individual
consciousness. They dialectically combine the immediate goals with a broad program of action for the
distant future, the subjective world of man, his aspirations and ideals with real-life circumstances.
Objective conditions, which are primary in relation to subjective plans, force a person to build
his future taking into account the real possibilities. Thus, life plans are a reflection in the individual
consciousness of the dominant social relations, the specifics of the social state, the peculiarities of the
microenvironment, and other factors that determine the probability of the real-life program of the
individual. In another respect, life plans motivate a person to act in order to overcome the limits of
their existing existence, because under the influence of the totality, it has formed certain aspirations,
developed appropriate attitudes, etc. In this sense, life plans not only to reflect objective
circumstances but to some extent create them.
Assessing his future activity, which acts as a carrier of value, a person establishes its
significance, compliance, or non-compliance with their interests, tastes, preferences. Depending on
the degree of conformity (inconsistency), the assessment can be expressed in various forms - approval
or condemnation, consent or criticism, sympathy or antipathy, love or hate, and so on. In the most
general form, the value properties of things and phenomena are denoted by the categories "good -
evil", "usefulness - harm", "beauty - ugliness".
A person is always attracted by something more, something less, and something, in general,
leaves him indifferent. Usefulness can apply to both material and spiritual values. Harmfulness is
always a negative value attitude of a person to the object of value. In order for the acquired knowledge
to become a conviction and motivate a person to action, he must comprehend its importance and
necessity for his activity (Yankina, 2005).
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Table 1
Comparative analysis of value orientations of freshmen and fourth-year students
Values (category)
Number of respondents
1st year
4th year
1. High material well-being
28 (93,4%)
26 (86,7%)
2. Pleasant pastime, rest
18 (60%)
15 (50%)
3. Communication
16 (53,3%)
18 (60%)
4. Recognition and respect of people and influence on others
15 (50%)
28 (93,4%)
We obtained, on the one hand, the expected result in terms of the importance of high material
evaluation of work, both for students in the first year of study and in the fourth. High importance for
the two groups of respondents, had a pleasant pastime and communication in a professional
environment. Recognition and respect have become more important for final year students and will
already have a bachelor's degree in psychology. At the same time, low scores on the value of personal
health came as a surprise to us - 13% and 10% of respondents. Helping others, social activity, searching,
and enjoying the beautiful - scored an average of less than 10%. The lowest interest in the two groups
was found at the expense of the values of knowledge of the world, nature, and man - an average of
7% of respondents.
Given the fact that some values are more important for a person, others - less important, a
hierarchy of values is formed. We are talking about such a system in which they are located depending
on the extent of their importance. In this sense, we can talk about higher and lower values. The ratio
of value orientations in freshmen and fourth-year students is almost the same, as can be seen in the
diagram (Fig. 1).
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Fig. 1. Comparative analysis of value orientations of future psychologists
But the most important thing is the youth's awareness of their own self-worth and
understanding of the same value as any other person. Demonstrations of respect for oneself and
others, preservation of the integrity of one's own borders and the borders of other people. It is also
about the conscious concept of one's own desires, the will to live one's own life, and not to satisfy the
desires and interests of others, even the closest people. A person of truly high inner culture is able to
harmoniously combine feelings of self-worth and respect for others.
The concept of absolute value applies to all people - regardless of age, gender, race and
nationality, education, profession, occupation, and so on. Each person is valuable and interesting in
itself, deserves attention only because it is. In the process of life, a person must be aware of their value
and carefully protect it. She must be able, based on the hierarchy of values, to determine the highest
goal of her life so that it meets both social needs and their own inclinations and aspirations; to go to
this goal steadily, but as they say, not to "focus" on one thing, to have a wide range of interests.
The value attitude to reality (due, in turn, to needs and interests) is the unconditional and most
direct factor that determines human activity. The value of this factor is expressed depending on the
degree of activity, interest, beliefs, attitudes, orientations, and other subjective factors of man. It
clearly manifests itself in various forms of activity - in economics, politics, ideology, and in the
professional development of the future professional. After all, each sphere of activity is a unique
system of values. People's activity is always aimed at the use, preservation, and development of values
or what they can become. This is the essence of the value attitude to reality.
Values, to some extent, are determined by the nature of the individual. The content of
character is determined by the social conditions of life and upbringing. A person's actions are always
motivated by something, directed at something or someone. The ability to set goals, including
professional ones, to achieve a goal is an important aspect that is part of understanding the
professionalism of the future specialist. Man subordinates his goals, sets himself immediate
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(immediate), which are a reflection of the more distant, to achieve which he will seek later. And here
we used the method of studying the volitional organization of personality (Khokhlov, 1986). After all,
the problem of the development of volitional behavior in ontogenesis remains relevant in modern
psychological science. Its development allows us to reveal the mechanisms of the conscious activity of
the individual, which is aimed at interacting with the outside world and regulating their behavior in it.
Having studied the level of volitional organization of the personality of future psychologists by
the method of A. Khokhlov (modernized by M. Yantsur), we obtained the following results for freshmen
on the scale of value-semantic organization of personality: in 60% of subjects volitional quality requires
systematic development, its underdevelopment Volitional quality is sufficiently developed in 26.5%.
Volitional quality is one of the leading in the structure of the volitional organization of the individual –
only 13.5%.
On a scale of organization of activity: in 40% of the studied volitional quality requires
systematic development. Volitional quality is sufficiently developed in 14 subjects, which is 26.5%.
Volitional quality is one of the leading in the structure of the volitional organization of personality - the
same, only 4 respondents (13.5%).
On the scale of determination: 43.4% strong-willed quality needs systematic development.
Volitional quality is sufficiently developed in 10 subjects, which is 33.3%, respectively. Volitional quality
is one of the leading in the structure of the volitional organization of personality - 7 respondents, which
is 23.3% of respondents.
On the scale of persistence: strong-willed quality needs to be systematically developed, its
underdevelopment prevents a person from achieving the set goal - 10 respondents, which is 33.3%.
Volitional quality is sufficiently developed in 50% of participants in the experiment. Volitional quality
is one of the leading in the structure of the volitional organization is 16.7% of respondents.
On a scale of self-control: in 53.4% volitional quality needs systematic development. Volitional
quality is sufficiently developed in 36.6%. Volitional quality is one of the leading in the structure of the
volitional organization of the individual - in 10% of respondents.
The results on the scale of independence: volitional quality requires systematic development,
its underdevelopment prevents a person from achieving the goal - 9 respondents, which is 30%.
Volitional quality is sufficiently developed in 14 subjects, which is 46.6%. Volitional quality is one of the
leading in the structure of the volitional organization of personality - 7 respondents, which is 23.4% of
respondents.
According to the general scale "Will", future psychologists obtained the following results:
strong-willed personality qualities need training and development need more than half of the subjects
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- 16 respondents, which is respectively 53.4%. Volitional personality qualities are sufficiently
developed in 13 respondents, which corresponds to 43.3%. Only 1 respondent has a high level of
volitional organization of personality, which is only 3.3%.
According to the results of this technique, we can conclude that first-year students, in most
cases, have underdeveloped volitional qualities, which will require them to develop systematically.
Although there are students whose volitional qualities are developed at a sufficient level, and the
smallest number of those whose volitional quality is one of the leading in the structure of personality.
Therefore, in order to become good professionals, to achieve the goal, first-year students need to work
hard on their personal characteristics and professional capabilities. It is important to pay attention to
such qualities as the ability to make decisions independently and be responsible for them, to overcome
difficulties in acquiring knowledge, skills, and abilities. Such low results may be due to the value
orientations of freshmen, as well as the complex adaptation process that they overcome in the first
year.
We conducted the same method on a group of fourth-year students. After analyzing the
questionnaires, we obtained the following results on the scale of value-semantic organization of
personality: volitional quality requires systematic development, its underdevelopment prevents a
person from achieving the goal - 10 respondents, which is 33.3% of respondents. Volitional quality is
sufficiently developed in 18 subjects, which is 60%. Volitional quality is one of the leading in the
structure of the volitional organization of personality - only 2 respondents (6.7%).
On a scale of organization of activity: 16.7% volitional quality requires systematic
development. Volitional quality is sufficiently developed in 23 subjects, which is 76.6%, respectively.
Volitional quality is one of the leading in the structure of the volitional organization of the individual -
only 6.5%.
On the scale of determination: strong-willed quality needs systematic development, its
underdevelopment prevents a person from achieving the set goal - 26.6%. Volitional quality is
sufficiently developed in 17 subjects, which is 56.6%, respectively. Volitional quality is one of the
leading in the structure of the volitional organization of the individual - is 16.7% of respondents.
On the scale of perseverance: strong-willed quality requires systematic development, its
underdevelopment prevents a person from achieving the goal - is 33.3%. Volitional quality is
sufficiently developed in 15 subjects, which is respectively 50%. Volitional quality is one of the leading
in the structure of the volitional organization of personality - in 16.7% of respondents.
On a scale of self-control: volitional quality requires systematic development, its
underdevelopment prevents a person from achieving the goal - is 6.5%. Volitional quality is sufficiently
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developed in 66.6%. Volitional quality is one of the leading in the structure of the volitional
organization of personality - in 26.4% of respondents.
Results on the scale of independence: volitional quality requires systematic development, its
underdevelopment prevents a person from achieving the goal - is 13.4%. Volitional quality is
sufficiently developed in 53.3% of surveyed students. Volitional quality is one of the leading in the
structure of the volitional organization of personality - 10 respondents, which is 33.3% of respondents.
According to the general scale "Will", future psychologists received the following results:
strong-willed personality qualities need training and development in 26.6% of respondents. Volitional
qualities are sufficiently developed in 66.6% of young people in the fourth year. Only 2 respondents
have a high level of strong-willed organization of personality, which is only 6.7%.
Having made a comparative analysis, it can be noted that fourth-year students have developed
volitional qualities at a sufficient level. The biggest differences between the first and fourth-year
students are observed on the scales of organization of activity, independence, and persistence. Thus,
work on oneself, interest in the chosen profession, participation in many practical tasks give senior
students the opportunity to develop such a characterological phenomenon as the volitional qualities
of personality. It should be noted that such a characteristic will has the ability to develop and improve.
This can be achieved through constant work on yourself.
Fig. 2. Comparative analysis of the levels of volitional organization of future psychologists
Strength of character is manifested in active and persistent actions, activities, and the ability
to complete a task or achieve a goal, despite obstacles. The true personality must have the unity of all
components of its character. However, the unity of character does not preclude the fact that under
different circumstances, the same person has different manifestations of these components and traits.
At the same time, a person can be indulgent and overly demanding, steadfast and compliant, generous
and stingy. At the same time, the unity of the components of character remains, and this is manifested.
Each component of character has to some extent an integrative manifestation in each character trait,
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as well as in the character as a whole. Therefore, we cannot talk about worldview, intellectual,
emotional, volitional character traits. Character as a peculiar, constant, holistic attitude of the
individual to various aspects of reality can be stable or unstable, complete, holistic, definite, or
indistinct.
Conclusions and prospects. Professional culture is an individual set of personal characteristics
and professional qualities. It is manifested through the level of mastery of certain achievements and
practical skills and professional competencies, socio-professional mobility, which contributes to social
and life development in terms of entering the European educational space. It is the professional culture
that provides the necessary level of professional functions and the possibility of further self-
improvement of the specialist. It is also important to take into account the level of material reward for
the activities performed, as well as the formation or non-formation of the volitional component of the
personality of the young specialist. We were able to determine that regardless of the year of study,
the main value for future professionals is high material well-being, as well as the recognition and
respect of people and influence on others. The strong-willed qualities of the respondents need to be
systematically developed, which is provided by the institution of higher education. After all, the results
of fourth-year students clearly show a much higher rate of development of this quality.
Value orientations and the volitional component can be the motivating factor that will
contribute to successful professional realization. After all, they program a person's activities for a long
time, determine the main line of the behavior of a person, act as a goal of life and the main means of
achieving it, so they become important regulators of socio-professional behavior of the future
specialist. Developed volitional factor - implies the fact that the individual is ready to make every effort
to achieve professional and life goals. In particular, the ability to choose a profession requires the
ability to make decisions, aware of professional self-determination, professional culture, and the value
of the chosen activity.
In the general context, professionalism can be defined as a creative synthesis of high-quality
professional knowledge and practical experience of the individual, characterological constructs, which
determines the choice of optimal strategy and tactics and ensures high efficiency of its
implementation. We consider the improvement of the criteria of the complex of qualities of a
professionally successful, effective, in-demand specialist to be prospects. Improvement of the
education system, development of the program of development of qualities of the future professional
which are formed in higher school and undergo the further improvement, are applied and realized in
labor activity of youth in Ukraine.
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