Study of the relationship between personal orientation and professional self-determination of adolescents

The article presents the results of the study of the relationship between personal orientation and professional self-determination of adolescents. The Introduction shows the social significance of the problem in the context of the current situation of transformation of various spheres of human activity and trends in the expansion of information that radically change the process of choosing a profession. The novelty of the research lies in the presentation of a brief overview of research on the problems of professional self-determination. The article considers modern approaches to the study of personal orientation, its relationship with professional self-determination. The sources of interconnection of professional self-determination and its components with the orientation of the personality are indicated. The Methods section describes the main groups of empirical research methods: B. Bass's orientation questionnaire; vocational guidance questionnaire I. L. Solomin; A. A. Azbel, A. G. Gretsov, aimed at studying the statuses of professional identity. Methods of mathematical statistics were used in the research: Mann-Whitney test; Spearman's criterion. The empirical sample of the study was made up of adolescents aged 14-16 years of MBOU "School No. 18" in Rostov-on-Don. The Results section describes the four stages of the conducted empirical research. The dominant types of personality orientation are studied: self-orientation, communication orientation, and business orientation. Professional interests and abilities for each of the three groups with different types of personal orientation were studied. The dominant types of orientation and orientation to the types of professional selfdetermination are shown. The Discussion of the results analyzes the status of professional identity of adolescents for each of the three groups with different types of personal orientation. The results of mathematical statistics used for the comparative analysis of the professional identity of adolescents with different types of personality orientation are presented. The differences between the indicators of professional identity and different types of personal orientation are revealed. The interrelationships between the indicators of professional identity statuses and various types of personal orientation are revealed. The Conclusion emphasizes the interconnection of three types of personality orientation with the characteristics of professional self-determination in adolescence.

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