Structural Components of Professional Value Orientations of University Students
In the scientific article the authors consider one of the most significant problems in the study of professional value orientations of University students at the present stage of development of higher education in Russia - the problem of determining their structure. The relevance of which is due to the ongoing transformations in the socio-cultural sphere of modern Russian society, which led to significant changes in the system of professional value orientations of University students. The content of value representations of future specialists, as well as the hierarchy of values in General, changes. The purpose of this article is to determine and theoretically substantiate the structural components of professional value orientations of University students. Research objectives: to concretize the content of the basic concept of "professional value orientations"; to study the state of this problem in the psychological and pedagogical literature, to determine and theoretically justify the interrelated and interdependent structural components of professional value orientations of University students - cognitive, emotive, motivational and behavioral. The result of the study is the presented three-component structure of professional value orientations of University students, which, according to the authors, contributes to professional self-improvement and personal growth of the future specialist, in demand today in the labor market. The three-component structure is quite universal, and therefore it can be applied to the training of future specialists in various areas of training in the educational process of the University.