Psychological features of the development of the emotional-volitional sphere in students of a medical university
The article analyzes the psychological features of the emotional-volitional sphere in medical students. The following psycho-diagnostic methods were used in the study: the subjective control level questionnaire (USK) of J. Rotter, the self-actualization test support scale; questionnaire volitional personality traits M.V. Chumakova, test M. Rokicha "Value Orientations"; diagnostic technique of the psychological sex of Sandra Boehm. Statistical data processing was performed using the Mann-Whitney U-test, φ * criterion (Fisher angular transformation) and the Spearman correlation coefficient. It has been established that the value of volitional qualities is influenced by professional orientation and gender characteristics. Students are characterized by a consistent increase in indicators of such volitional qualities as independence, attentiveness. Responsibility and endurance are reduced to the third year, but by the fifth there is a tendency for their growth, and the determination, energy, initiative, perseverance and determination remain unchanged from the first to fifth year. Psychological students are distinguished by the importance of such values as “independence”, “self-control”. For students of a medical profile priority are such volitional qualities as “diligence”, “honesty”. It was revealed that the leading parameters that determine the structure of the volitional sphere of the personality are values and the level of subjective control. The article identified methods for the development of the emotional-volitional sphere of teenage boys and girls in the process of study at the university.