DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONALITY IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Nowadays the profession of psychologist becomes more popular. This determines the growth of requirements to professional studying. Studying in higher educational establishment is also a period of formation of young personality and period of development the qualities which are necessary for future profession. Professional studying must provide not only the acquisition of professional knowledge and skills but also to form the qualities of personality which are necessary to such specialist. The difficulty of mastering the profession of psychologist is that besides achieving knowledge, practical skills and abilities during the studying it is necessary to do a lot of work in creating of their own personality and professional identification. There is a combination of professional and personal skills in professional activity of psychologist. Thus, personal qualities form the basis of professional activity of psychologist. Research on the development of psychological characteristics of personality of future psychologist is realized with the help of testing in the process of professional studying(at the beginning and in the end). The result is the statistically significant differences on the level p=0,05, by scales: “Competition”, “Adaptation”, “Cooperation”, “Acception of fight”, “Friendly”, “Submissive”, “Motivation”, “Life installation”, “Aims”, “Self-confidence”, “Self-management”, “Mirror I”, “Self-value”. Scale data characterize the development of qualities of future psychologists during their professional studying. Namely, at the beginning of professional studying the following characteristics are peculiar: “Adaptation”, “Submissive”, “Aims”, “Mirror I”. There are higher rates of separate scales for graduates: “Competition”, “Cooperation”, “Acception of fight”, “Friendly”, “Motivation”, “Life installation”, “Self-confidence”, “Self-management”, “Self-value”. There have been fixed significant changes between given scales. These changes are conditioned by future professional functions, which can optimize the process of adaptation of young specialist. Thus, the professional studying promotes the development of psychological characteristics of personality, which is the key to professional identification and self-realization.