(2018) Science and education, 1, 157-167. Odessa.

Viktoriia Synyshyna,
PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), Department of Psychology,
State University “Uzhhorod National University”,
14, Universytetska Str., Uzhhorod, Ukraine

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF OCCUPATIONAL
SELF-DETERMINATION OF ADOLESCENT SCHOOL STUDENTS

The choice of profession plays a significant role in the process of life decisions making by individuals, thus causing the scientific interest in the issue of occupational self-determination of senior school students. The study of individual’s self-determination is urgent in the context of solving the problems of motivation and needs spheres. The paper aims to reveal psychological aspects of occupational self-determination of adolescent school students. 80 school graduates took part in the experiment. The hypothesis, that there is a correlation between the motives of choosing a profession and types of occupational self-determination of adolescent school students, has been tested by the Student t-test on the significance of the correlation coefficient. Having applied Holland’s, Klimov’s, Golomshtok’s, Ovcharova’s, and Vereshchagina’s diagnostic questionnaires, it has been concluded that investigative (individuals who choose scientific professions, are focused on solving intellectual creative tasks and possess the developed nonverbal and verbal intelligence) and artistic types (with originality of thoughts and extraordinary view of life) are peculiar to the majority of the respondents; the of “individual – individual” type is peculiar to the majority of the respondents, who choose communication-related professions; most of the respondents manifest interest in pedagogy; internal socially significant motives (professions that bring pleasure), the motive of social significance prevail in choosing a future profession. There is a positive correlation between the indicators of realistic personality type and internal individually significant motives; there is a positive correlation between the indicators of social personality type and the motive of social significance of a job; there is a negative correlation between the conventional personality type and the motive of professional proficiency; there is a negative correlation between the social personality type and the motive of own work.

adolescent school students, occupational self-determination, motivation of choice, types of professions, external motivation, internal motivation, interests.

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