DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS AS A PROFESSIONALLY SIGNIFICANT QUALITY OF WOULD-BE EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS

Abstract

The article highlights a number of topical issues concerning the development of competitiveness as a professionally significant quality of teachers-psychologists. In order to identify the level and basic characteristics of the personal competitiveness of students of future teachers-psychologists, we conducted an empirical study. The subjects were undergraduate students of the educational program "Pedagogy and Psychology" of the first and fourth courses.
The structural components of the study are the theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on relevant scientific issues, the selection of the necessary psychodiagnostic techniques, the analysis and generalization of the data obtained.
The conducted research allows us to trace the dynamics of the development of the level and basic characteristics of the personal competitiveness of future teachers-psychologists. Along with identifying the existing level of personal competitiveness, we conducted diagnostics of the degree of severity of such characteristics in the subjects as the level of efficiency, diligence, indicators of the ability to self-development and self-education.
According to the results of the study, we revealed the predominance of a higher level of personal competitiveness development among graduate students compared to first-year students. A higher level of self-development and self-education, a more pronounced manifestation of diligence and efficiency were also demonstrated by representatives of the final courses.