Interrelation of motivation and the need for success with risk readiness in psychology students
The problem of educational activity’ motivation with a vector for its positive outcome continues to be one of the urgent problems in psychology and pedagogy. At the heart of the student's study, in our opinion, as an arbitrary activity, is his motivation. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate everything that affects it, since the degree of study of the motivation of educational activity depends on the success of student learning. The goal is to study the relationship between achievement motivation in the educational activities of students-psychologists of an extreme profile with their willingness to take risks. Methods and organization of the study. The study involved 30 2nd year students of the Faculty of Extreme Psychology of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (Moscow, Russia), studying in the specialty 37.05.02 Psychology of performance at the age of 17-18, of which 93.3% were girls and 6.7% were boys. The following psycho-diagnostic tools were used: the method of the level of personal risk readiness (“RSK” Schubert); amethodologythat measures theneeds toachievesuccess among students (Yu.M . Orlov); methods measuring motivation to avoid failures and motivation to succeed (T. Ehlers); atechnique that measures motivation for success and fear of failure (A.A. Rean). The received data were processed using the SPSS-27 software package. The results of the study revealed a positive, weak and moderate correlation among students, respectively, of risk readiness with indicators of the need for success (r=0.294, p<0.05) and indicators of motivation for success (r=0.519, p<0.01)