PECULIARITIES OF PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL BECOMING
The problem of the study is relevant as the professional identity reflects a human’s whole picture of one’s own belonging to the professional group or community. Let us note that such a picture, in particular, is accompanied by the specific values, motivation and, the most important, by the acceptance or non-acceptance of one’s own profession. The professional identity is interpreted as the professional development that takes place at the high level of learning a profession and is one of the fundamental mechanisms of a person’s development. Thus, the study of professional identity of the students-psychologists and graduates-psychologists will allow solving professional issues associated with the practical activity implementation. The paper considers the differences in the content of professional identity between the groups of students-psychologists and graduates-psychologists. The author analyzes the professional identity and the assessment of the resulting quality of life or the satisfaction with self-fulfillment, as well as the position of the attitude of tested to the profession taken or to be taken according to the idea about the significant differences in the content of professional identity between the groups of students-psychologists and graduates-psychologists. The peculiarities and characteristics of professional identity of tested as well as the actual and ideal professional self-image are studied. Obtained data allow concluding about the fact that there are significant differences in the content of professional identity between the groups of students-psychologists and graduates-psychologists. The study allowed identifying the position of the attitude of tested to the profession taken as well as the peculiarities of professional identity at different stages of person’s professional becoming. It is proved that the position of active attitude to the profession taken dominates at the graduates-psychologists.