Moral and value bases of the process of professional self-determination in adolescence

Abstract

Professional and personal self-determination is the key task of adolescence and is associated with the search for a person's value and sense basis of his life. The research is aimed to study the role of value priorities in the process of professional self-determination in adolescence. The success of professional self-determination can be operationalized in the form of the status of identity in the profession (E.Erikson, D.Marcia) and personal professional perspective (E.Klimov, N.S.Pryazhnikov). The tasks of the empirical research included determining the characteristics of adolescents' professional self-determination and studying the connection between the characteristics of adolescent value preferences and the level of professional self-determination. The methods of determining the personal professional perspective of N.S.Pryazhnikov (as modified by O.A.Karabanova, V.S.Vologzhanina); the method of determining the status of identity in the field of professional self-determination of D.Marcia in the modification of O.A.Karabanova, V.R.Orestova; technique of value orientations of S.Schwartz were used. The study involved 144 people aged 15 to 17 years, including 48% of boys and 52% of girls. The unevenness of the formation of the components of the personal professional perspective was revealed. The status of identity in the field of professional self-determination was identified. Differences in the significance of the values of "achievement", "universality-tolerance", "independence of thoughts" and "independence of actions" between groups of adolescents differing in the maturity of professional self-determination were found. The obtained results confirm the hypothesis about the role of the value factor in the success of professional self-determination in adolescence. The high status of identity in the profession (moratorium and achieved identity) is combined with the high importance of the values of "achievement" and "universalism-tolerance" and the high level of formation of the components of personal professional perspective is consistent with the importance of the values of "achievement", "independence of thoughts and actions".