Recieved: 05/03/2024
Accepted: 12/16/2024
Published: 02/12/2025
Keywords: professional “I-concept”; career orientations; professional identity; value orientations; cadets of a military university; students of a civil university
Pages: 65-74
DOI: 10.11621/npj.2025.0106
Available online: 12.02.2025
Mikhno, O.S. (2025). Professional “I-concept” of Cadets at a Military University and Students at a Civil University Studying in the Direction of “Psychology”. National Psychological Journal, 20(1) , 65-74. https://doi.org/10.11621/npj.2025.0106
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CopyBackground. In modern society, the demands to the professionalism of psychologists are increasing, which is reflected in the innovative trends in higher professional education reforms. Currently, complex and contradictory dynamics is observed in the youth environment. On the one hand, positive shifts are taking place in the field of formation of the professional “I-concept” of young specialists. On the other hand, there is an increase in negative social processes: the spread of a dependent position, a consumer attitude to life, a bifurcation of moral standards, etc. Accordingly, studies that identify predictors of the professional “I-concept” of the future specialists in order to improve the system of their professional training and education are relevant.
Objective. The study focuses on the comparison of the characteristics of professional “I-concept” among cadets of a military university and students of a civil university studying in the direction of “Psychology”.
Methods. The research was carried out using the following methods: the “Career Anchor” by E. Shane; “Value Orientations” by M. Rokeach; methodology for studying the status of professional identity by A.A. Azbel, adapted for university students and cadets.
Study Participants. The study involved 59 students of a civil university and 50 cadets of a military university, being at the third and fourth years of studying in the field of Psychology, aged from 20 to 26 years.
Results. The empirical study revealed significant statistical differences between the groups in individual parameters of the professional “I-concept”: in the severity of individual career orientations, in the value orientations and in the status of professional identity.
Conclusions. The features of the professional “I-concept” differ in psychology students and psychology cadets, which is explained by the specifics of their training: psychology cadets develop career orientations and values with management, teamwork, high activity, mobility; psychology students often have career orientations toward entrepreneurship.
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Mikhno, O.S.. Professional “I-concept” of Cadets at a Military University and Students at a Civil University Studying in the Direction of “Psychology”. // National Psychological Journal 2025. 1. Pages65-74. doi: 10.11621/npj.2025.0106
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