EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MOTIVATION OF STUDDENTS - FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN PSYCHOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
The paper considers educational and professional motivation as the set of steady motives, having a certain hierarchy and expressing the personality orientation. 78 students of the 1-5 year of study at the training course «Psychology of Professional Activity» took part in the resreach. The study was conducted with the help of the psychodiagnostic method «Motivation of learning» by A.A. Rean and B.A. Yakunin , as well as a questionnaire for identifying the purpose of entering the training course and the age of this decision-making. In the article there is given the analysis of six motives expression: gaining knowledge, mastering the profession, getting the diploma, educational process, approving of environment, scholarship; the analysis of interrelation of these motives is given. As a result of the motive expression comparison among students of different years of study there were singled out three categories of students. According to the results of the analysis it was established that despite the differences, most of the students made their choice of profession consciously and were going to work as psychologists of professional activity after the graduation.