METHODICAL SUPPORT OF STUDYING THE STATE OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL AND VALUE ORIENTATION OF STUDENTS TO EMPLOYMENT

Abstract

In the article the author analyzes modern domestic and foreign approaches to the definition of professionaland value orientations. It is concluded that in the context of the research topic, foreign scholars mainly studythe influence of certain socio-psychological factors on the value sphere of employees. Instead, domestic scholarsfocus more on psychological and pedagogical analysis of the mechanisms of formation of value orientationsand their impact on personality development. It is determined that professional and value orientations area semantic component of professional self-determination of students and are the leading regulatory functionof self-knowledge, self-attitude, self-regulation. Accordingly, performing a motivational, motivating role,professional and value orientations direct a person to self-change and self-movement. In order to highlight the methodology of studying the state of formation of professional and value orientationsin students, the article provides the author’s definition of “professional value orientations in students to work”,defined (based on component-procedural model of conscious appropriation of spiritual values by a growingperson (I. Bekh)) its component structure (cognitive, emotional-motivational, arbitrary impulse, practicaleffectiveand self-valuable components and corresponding indicators) and the levels of their formation (high,medium, low) are characterized. A list of methods for diagnosing the levels of formation of professional and valueorientations in students, which are widely used in psychological and pedagogical practice, indicates their reliabilityand compliance with the age dimension of the psychological structure of the personality of adolescents and highschool students. It is concluded that the described method will allow to fully explore the features of professionaland value orientations of modern students of older adolescence and adolescence to work.