CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF-CONCEPT OF FUTURE PSYCHOLOGISTS

Abstract

The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that self-perception in the context of social transformations and martial law has become an important topic in education, taking into account its influence on the behavior and success of students, especially future psychologists. Self-attitude, self-determination, and self-actualization are impossible without analyzing the interrelated components of self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. A high level of development of professional self-awareness, an adequate and stable self-concept lead to constructive professional behavior, which allows a psychologist to overcome professional and personal difficulties. The product of the development of professional self-awareness is the self-concept, which is a personal resource and plays a key role in shaping the results of professional behavior. To diagnose the features of the self-concept of future psychologists, we used such methods as the SAMOAL method and the Self-Efficacy Scale. From the obtained results of the empirical research, it can be concluded that boys - future psychologists perceive the external world as more aggressive, in which it is necessary to gain recognition, but not to open their inner world and not to express their own emotions. At the same time, girls are characterized by greater flexibility in communication, empathy, emotionality, at the same time, they are quite sensitive to criticism directed at themselves and, accordingly, prone to self-blame, which is often expressed in insecure behavior in interpersonal interaction. The highest indicators of future psychologists were found on such scales of self-actualization as contact, creativity and the need for knowledge, on the other hand, the lowest - on the scales of orientation in time and spontaneity. This characterizes future psychologists as open to new impressions, creative and non-standard personalities, prone to activities that require non-standard and non-standard solutions, capable of establishing emotional relationships with other people. At the same time, future psychologists distrust the world around them, are oriented towards the future, because they believe that now they are only preparing for further real life. Prospects for further research are the analysis of the connection between the self-concept and professional identity and the impact of the psychological trauma of the war on it.