Psychology and Psychotechnics - rubric Professional psychology

Abstract: Abstract: the author of the article has extended the definition of «empathy» as a personal quality and ability to understand, sympathize and share other people’s feelings; to understand their emotions and share their psychological state by deliberately identifying ourselves with the others for some time; to penetrate and to feel what they feel and to reflect at the rational, emotional and intuition levels. The author has described the empathy as a preventive measure or, on the contrary, favorable ground for the emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduction of personal achievements leading to professional deformations. The article describes the “normal” level of empathy in respect to future and working psychologists and teachers. The author points out how necessary it is to work towards the “normal” level of empathy.

Keywords: psychology, altruism, empathy, depersonalization, identification, imitation, sympathy, self-consciousness, involvement

Abstract: Abstract: The author of the article has extended the definition of «stress stability» as a set of personal traits enabling a specialist to successfully deal with stress situations and endure stress. The author described the psychological prerequisites for professional stress which can be endured by future teachers: below average alexithymia (or prevailing “non-alexithymic” type of personalities), disforic type to emotional reaction (the disforia to activities), particularities of the separate psychic processes, refraction of the type to emotional reaction (the refraction to activities), reduction to general activity, somatic of the breaches, euphoric type to emotional reaction (the euphoric activity); average (moderate) manifestation of nervously-psychic voltage, manifestation of emotional shift, disadaptation in stress, peculiarities of the social interactions, sensation to weariness, liability stress, professional stress, professional disadaptation, reduction to motivation, response to stress, stress in relations, changes in general conditions. It is specifically underlined that there is a need to take into account the following aspects when applying preventive measures: low level of stress stability; low analysis of stress; above average breaches of the cycle "dream - reality", the general stress, threats of the nervous failure, physical and emotional stress.

Keywords: adaptation, adaptability, dezadaptation, distress, the general adaptation syndrome, professional stress, psychic stability, psychic condition, stress, stress stability, extreme factors, emotional reaction

Abstract: The article considers the problem of resistance to stress in administration activity, theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of studying stress resistance and contains the results of a corresponding case study. Key words: psychology, administration, management, activity, stress, resistance to stress, administration official, adaptability, self-esteem, personality

Abstract: The author of the article has extended the definition ‘emotional exhaustion’ as an element of professional deformation of both students and specialists working in the sphere of psychology and teaching. The author described the psychological prerequisites for emotional exhaustion which can be endured by future teachers and psychologists as well as working specialists. These prerequisites include: below average emotional and/or physical exhaustion, early stages of tension and resistance, formation of specific symptoms when the specialist experiences a psychological trauma, anxiety and depression, inadequate emotional reaction, reduction of professional duties, emotional deficit and emotional distance. It is specifically underlined that there is a need to take into account the following facts when training specialists and applying preventive measures: absence of a stage of emotional exhaustion and self discontent, personal distance and psychosomatic and vegetative disorders.

Keywords: tension, professional deformation, psychic deformation, psychological defense, resistance, stress, emotions, emotional disadaptation, emotional exhaustion

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2018.1.24689

Abstract: The article deals with drivers´ rehabilitation programs. The program is determined for drivers who withdrawn driving licenses for repeatedly traffic offenses or for transport crimes. The program aims to change the behavior and attitudes of dangerous drivers. The program is designed as 4 hours group meetings (6 meetings). The meetings themselves combine education and therapeutic intervention. In this framework, not only is the therapeutic work of instructors used, but also group dynamics. Typical participants of this program are drivers under influence of alcohol or drugs. The rehabilitation program works in most European countries. In the Czech Republic are currently under pilot study. This study presents step by step the structure of drivers´ rehabilitation program in the Czech Republic. This article deals with the possibilities of measuring the program´s effectiveness although. It is always important to consider the possibilities of evaluating such measures in the implementation of any action aimed at changing the behavior and attitudes of an individual.

Keywords: traffic offenders, traffic accidents, driving skills, GDE matrix, traffic safety, evaluation of rehabilitation programs, drivers´rehabilitation programs, fitness for driving, traffic psychological examination, risky behavior

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2013.7.8072

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2013.6.7541

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2021.2.35686

Abstract: This article examines the problem of professional identity of modern students majoring in psychology, as well as the problem of creativity as one of the essential universal competencies of a modern specialist. The author reviews the question of the need for accompanying the process of formation of professional identity of the students majoring in psychology. The object of this research is the professional identity of such students, while the subject is the creativity peculiarities of students majoring in psychology with different status of professional identity. The article provides the results of one of the research stages on the role of creativity in formation of professional identity of psychology students. The sampling involved 155 students majoring in psychology from Novosibirsk State Technical University and Siberian State Transport University. The conducted empirical research reveals the creativity peculiarities of psychology students with different status of professional identity. The authors also assumed that the manifestations of imagery and verbal creativity differ among the students with different status of professional identity. The students with the dominant achieved status of professional identity demonstrate the highest indicators by the parameters of imagery creativity: degree of development and originality (20 circles). For the students with the dominant status of pseudo-identity, the manifestations of imagery and verbal creativity are not typical. The acquired results allow understanding the peculiarities of manifestation of creativity among psychology students with different status of professional identity on a deeper level.

Keywords: moratorium of professional identity, pseudo-identity, positive professional identity, verbal creativity, imaginative creativity, creativity, psychology students, professional identity, precocious professional identity, diffuse professional identity

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2020.4.34395

Abstract: The article presents the results of a study of changes in the innovative potential of the organization's employees in the post-crisis period using active visualization. A sufficiently large number of managers note the features of experiencing a crisis by employees of organizations. At the same time, there is a pronounced need to introduce innovations in the work of organizations in order to adapt to the current situation in the country and the world. The paper describes the innovative potential, presents its content (creative approach to work; employee's attitude to work in a situation of uncertainty; initiative; low anxiety; high search activity). The data obtained during the diagnostics of innovation potential allowed us to identify several groups of employees with different levels of readiness for its implementation: with a critical and low level of readiness for innovation; with an acceptable level of readiness for innovation; with a sufficiently pronounced level of readiness for innovation. The majority of respondents belong to the group with a low level of readiness for innovation. The results of the work carried out made it possible to form the main sections of the employee training program in order to develop their innovative potential. A key component of the program's implementation is active visualization as a way to transform employees' perceptions of innovation. It was revealed that the use of visualization in the framework of helping employees overcome changes allowed them to significantly increase their innovative potential and willingness to innovate in their work. Participants noted an increase in the level of observation, the ability to look outside the box at tasks at work, a decrease in fear of changes that occur in the organization in the post-crisis period.

Keywords: visualization, visual technologies, employee training technologies, levels of innovation potential, diagnostics of innovative potential, development of innovative potential, active learning methods, innovative potential, innovation, learning effectiveness

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2020.2.32460

Abstract: The subject of this research is the components of professional identity of the students gaining qualification in psychology. The goal of this work consists in description of typological peculiarities of professional identity of future psychologists. In the current socio-psychological conditions lead the requirements towards professionals increase, and imply maximal manifestation of professional qualities, clear self-identification with their profession, as well as the ability to constantly develop within the social environment. The research of the typological peculiarities of future psychologists can aid in choosing the professional vector, and increase the level of mastery within the selected field. For the qualitative analysis of the polling data, the author applied the STATISTICA 10 software (k-means clustering method). The article highlights the parameters of components of professional identity of a future psychologist, and proposes methods of studying professional identity of students majoring in psychology. The content of components of professional identity contributes to formation of various professional types of future psychologists: the acquired types differ in content and level of development of the components of professional identity. Based on the results of empirical research the author determines three types of future psychologists: active, person-oriented, and reflexive. The author makes recommendations on professional direction using the acquired student profiles.

Keywords: identity components, professional activity, identity structure, students, professionally important qualities, professional development, typological features, future psychologists, professional identity, professional direction

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2021.3.36225

Abstract: This article explores the crucial points associated with the objective assessment of parental position in the process of forensic psychological examination. The subject of this research is the specificity of parental position in the situation of forensic psychological expert study. The object is the parents in the situation of forensic psychological examination. The author describes the main capabilities of psychological diagnostics of parental position in the expert practice. The article analyzes the data acquired from psychometric surveys carried out among 46 parents/custodians involved in forensic psychological examination on civil cases related to disputes over child upbringing. The study employs the psychometric surveys for evaluation of child-parent relations (“The Analysis of Family Relationship” and “Child-Parent Interaction”). Based on the array of expert material, the author carries out statistical analysis of the data acquired via tested psychometric methods aimed at the assessment of parental position. The obtained correlation between the scales of psychometric surveys, the author highlights the most significant diagnostic criteria give an integral estimate of parental position. The novelty of this work consists in determination of diagnostic parameters that verify the key criteria of parental position in the course of forensic psychological examination: adequacy, predictivity, flexibility. The acquired materials contribute to objectification of conclusions of the psychologist in complicated expert situations on settling the issues related to child upbringing.

Keywords: civil process, parenting styles, difficulties in parenting psychodiagnostics, approaches to education, parental position, child-parental relations, forensic psychological examination, methods of psychological examination, psychometric questionnaires, integral assessment

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2022.3.38582

Abstract: The subject of the study is the main directions of studying the socio-psychological climate of the organization. The purpose of the study is to analyze the articles of modern scientists, as well as to identify the main current trends in modern domestic research on the socio-psychological and organizational climate. The results of research conducted in various work collectives are analyzed: in commercial and state organizations, educational institutions, internal affairs bodies, industrial enterprises, etc. Comparative analysis, systematization and classification of the received information is carried out. Special attention is paid to the relationship of a favorable climate with the efficiency and productivity of organizations, as well as factors for optimizing the socio-psychological climate. The results of more than twenty modern studies over the past three years have been analyzed. According to the results of the work, five relevant directions and trends in the study of the socio-psychological climate and the phenomena associated with it were identified: the study of the socio-psychological climate as a factor affecting the effectiveness of the organization; the study of the factors of optimization, improvement and management of the socio-psychological climate; the study of the relationship of the socio-psychological climate with organizational culture; the assessment of the influence of the influence of leadership qualities and management style on the socio-psychological climate of the organization; the study of the relationship of the socio-psychological climate with the characteristics of the behavior of employees in conflict.

Keywords: factors of the socio-psychological climate, optimization of the organization's climate, current trends, working atmosphere, group, organization, working team, climate, organizational climate, socio-psychological climate

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2018.1.25299

Abstract: In her article Kuzmina presents the results of her research that was devoted to the distinctions in self-attitude of law graduates at different stages of their career development, during their last year at the Law University, social and professional adaptation, acquiring necessary skills and knowledge, and succession development. The aim of the research is to discover statistically significant parameters of self-attitudes demonstrated by law graduates at different stages of their career development. The object of the research is personal self-attitude. The subject of the research is the comparative analysis of self-attitude parameters typical for law graduates at different stages of their career development. The methodology of the research included V. Myasischev's relationship theory, S. Pantileev's and V. Stolin's self-attitude concept, A. Derkach' acmeological approach to personality studies, definition of self-attitude as a subjective criterion of personal growth offered by N. and L. Shneiders, S. Pantileev's and V. Stolin's Self-Attitude Inventory, and D. Leontiev's Life Values Test. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author provides an integral view of an individual's interpersonal relationships with other actors that an individual deals with in the process of his or her going through stages of career development. The researcher discovers the following distinctions in self-attitudes at different stages of career development: integral self-attitude ratio (F = 6.77 whereas p≤0.01), self-respect (F = 4 whereas p≤0.01), expectation of positive attitude from others (F = 5.63 whereas p≤0.01), self-interest (F = 5.37 whereas p≤0.01), and self-guidance (F = 5.87 whereas p≤0.01). Law graduates who acted as trainees scored the lowest values of aforesaid indicators.

Keywords: distinctions, sense, person, self-awareness, professional, development, education, student, personality, self-attitude

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2019.1.29265

Abstract: In her article Blinova analyzes approaches to evaluating the personality component of the professional activity of a vehicle driver. Blinova demonstrates particular psychological features of vehicle drivers as a subjective factor that influences the road traffic safety. She also proves the importance of a vehicle driver as a special actor and underlines the need in a clear understanding of what qualities a driver must have to successfully perform his duties and what would be the best way to define the degree of their correspondence to the requirements for a professional driver. Blinova also describes an empirical research aimed at the analysis of personality traits that operationalize in the professional activity of a vehicle cdriver. The aim of the research that is based on the theoretical and empirical analysis is to develop a classification of driver's personality traits. The researcher describes kinds of drivers that differ in various combinations of cognitive processes, intensity of these or those personality traits and different attitudes to subjective personality aspects of driver's professional activity. The practical importance of this research is to define possible targets of preventive activities in the field of vehicle driver training.

Keywords: driver, personal characteristics of the driver, typology, operator, driver's personality, traffic psychology, сriteria of professional reliability, performance evaluation, personality typology, road traffic

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2024.2.70276

Abstract: The object of this research is the motivational and semantic relations of the individual. The subject of the research is the motivational and semantic relations of employees with different professional affiliations and specifics of performing functional duties. The purpose of the research is to study the structure of motivational and semantic relations of a person and to identify patterns of influence of professional affiliation and functional duties. The methodological basis for writing the article is the research of domestic and foreign scientists. Theoretical (comparative analysis) and empirical (interview, questionnaire) research methods were used in the study. The orientation of motivational and semantic relations of a person does not depend on the professional affiliation and the specifics of the performance of functional duties. Since the motivational and semantic relations of a person in professional activity are characterized by the presence of motivation based on the personal meaning, which motivates a person to activity and depend on the psychological state of a person who is in certain life circumstances. Motivational and semantic relations of a person are based on motivational and semantic processes that accompany and support a person throughout his or her working life. The aim of the work is to establish the regularities of the influence of professional affiliation and the specifics of functional duties on the motivational and semantic relations of employees to professional activities. In order to increase the efficiency of professional activities and improve the motivation of employees to the heads of organizations, the authors give practical recommendations for improving psychological support in organizations.

Keywords: professional activity, behavior, organization, motivational-semantic relations, personal meaning, motivation, personality, activity, Personal Relationships, workers

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2018.2.24443

Abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of professional activity. The article present the theoretical description of professional activity model. The purpose of this article is to take theoretical desription of each components of this model. For this purpose we presented the importance of this concept is indicated within the framework of psychology, a working definition of professional activity, the significance of this model in comparison with other models. A brief description of each component of professional activity in the context of the source (internal or external components) is offered. There are 5 components: energy, implementation opportunities, regulatory, dynamic, resultant. The practical implementation of the model in the analysis of the professional activity of freelancers as representatives of a special form of professional activity is proposed.

Keywords: freelance, internal components, external components, theoretical model, action, professional activity, activity, subject, interaction, activity context

Abstract: The article deals with features of psychiatrists’ personality profiles and types of empathy, depending on the additional education in the field of psychotherapy. Author points out the differences in these indicators between psychiatrists and psychiatrists-psychotherapists that reflects the inclusion of “subjectivity” in the professional work. The article gives the analysis of the results of a research on methods (a test to assess the type and level of empathy by Boiko, V.V.; MMPI, adapted by Berezin F.B. and Miroshnikov, M.P.) in two groups of psychiatrists (120 men) aged 24-61 years old. A statistical analysis allowed to determine the differences in this characteristics for psychiatrists and psychotherapists. The data obtained allowed author to formulate the relationship of personality profiles and types of empathy with the peculiarities of building relationships with patients, the dominant paradigms in the mental and psychological sciences.

Keywords: psychology, education, professional, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, personality, empathy, subjectivity, objectivity, paradigm.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2018.1.25709

Abstract: The traffic safety is based not only on a driver's skills and profesionally important qualities but also their behavior and self-esteem. This article is devoted to the research of the self-concept of a driver. The subject of the research is the images of real self and ideal self. The author of the article sets the following tasks in her research: to analyse and compare real self and ideal self images of a driver, and to define components thereof. The research methods include survey, modified version of Thomas Kuhn's drawing test, and semantic differential developed especially for this research. The result of the research is the author's comparison of drivers' actual concepts and their ideal concepts. The author also outlines ways to eliminate such discrepancies. In particular, the author emphasizes the need to undertake measures aimed at increasing the proficiency level of drivers and developing their psychological competence in self-regulation, coping with stress and tolerance towards others.

Keywords: human factor, personal characteristics of the driver, semantic differential, self-concept, driver's personality, traffic psychology, professional suitability, driving experience, personal development, road traffic

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2021.1.34924

Abstract: This article is dedicated to examination of the important professional competencies of aerospace engineers and specificity of their professional activity. The study represents an expert assessment of the activity and important professional competencies of aerospace engineers. The research program consisted of several stages. The first stage includes the formation of the relevant expert group and assessment of the characteristics of activity and important professional competencies based on the methodology of expert assessment of I. L. Solomin. The second stage implies the expert ranking of the important psychological characteristics in the activity of aerospace, and determination of psychological factors that affect the solution of professional tasks. Based on the acquired results, the author reveals the socioeconomic, industrial-technical, and psychological characteristics of the activity of aerospace engineers. The most important professional competencies of aerospace engineers include: attention span, ability to predict, psychic stability, memory, imagination, and distress tolerance. The effective solution of professional tasks by aerospace engineers requires psychological resilience to external influences, ability to maintain attention control, etc. The acquired data can be valuable in assessment of the important professional competencies of young specialists, as well as carrying out a set of measures aimed at developing attention span, ability to predict, and psychic stability.

Keywords: professional competence, engineering activity, solving professional problems, assessment of the profession, professionally important qualities, engineer of the rocket and space industry, rocket and space industry, subject of activity, professional development, expert

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2024.1.69654

Abstract: Professional experience assists specialists in processing information more quickly and effectively making precise decisions. Visual expertise, as a crucial component of experience, refers to the capability to rapidly perceive visual information within a specific professional domain, acquired through systematic education, professional development, and practice. Numerous studies utilize eye-tracking methods to analyze the relationship between professional experience and gaze patterns. For instance, experienced dermatologists have developed optimal scanning patterns, allowing them to efficiently allocate attention and accurately identify key diagnostic features within images amidst numerous secondary details. The purpose of this study is to analyze changes in oculomotor patterns after completing the author’s training program for doctors, aimed at versatile aesthetic analytics of the face, building individual treatment protocols and increasing the patient’s adherence to aesthetic medicine in order to assess the possibility of developing observation in the conditions of short-term training. Thirty cosmetic doctors participated in the study, which utilized eye-tracking methods with the Neuroburo program-hardware complex. The study was conducted in two phases – before and after training – with 15 patient facial images exhibiting various dermatological issues presented on a computer screen to the cosmetic doctors. Participants were tasked with identifying signs of dermatological disorders of the patients. Following training, a decrease in the number of fixations, an increase in saccadic amplitude, and a reduction in the overall scanning path length were observed among the cosmetic doctors. These findings indicate a more optimized perception strategy and suggest a more systematic and directed approach to diagnostic image analysis. The results suggest an enhanced global perception ability among the doctors, which may aid in recognizing broader patterns and structures and understanding the wider context and relationships between details.

Keywords: tracking eye movements, specialist, professional experience, aesthetic medicine, dermatocosmetologist, short-term training, visual perception, eye movements, eye-tracking, cosmetologist

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2017.3.23746

Abstract: The article analyzes the current approaches to evaluating efficiency of the training effects from the perspective of social and vocational psychology, and personality as the main object of influence of social-psychological trainings. The authors present the analysis of approaches to understanding efficiency of training effects by Yu. Zhukov, and L. Petrovskaya. They have also analyzed approaches to the evaluation of changes in psycho-impact of the training on the personality, interpersonal relations and professional competence described by such authors as: D. Kirkpatrick, and R. Bickley and D. Caple, A. Chanko, L. Petrovskaya and O. Pyatkova from the point of view of their relevance. Methods used by the authors during their research include content analysis of data from print and electronic sources of text data in empirical and practical studies of the authors concerning efficiency of the training impact of the socio-psychological training. The authors conclude that there are certain gaps in recording and interpreting personal impacts of the most popular short-term training programs. Based on the results of researches by O. Pyatkova and V. Kabrina the authors present a scheme of social and psychological assessment of stress-transformation of personality achieved in the process of implementing short-term training programs. The proposed scheme facilitates the interpretation of results of the training impact in terms of trans-communicative approach to the evaluation of short-term programs at various stages of the training cycle.

Keywords: trans-communication, stress transformation, group dynamics, efficiency, training impact, socio-psychological training, communicative stress, communicative trance, effect, training

Abstract: The article is devoted to the efficiency of psychoanalytically oriented education of spouses who are conflicting with each other. Experimental research proves that psychoanalytically oriented education changes the elements of the information model of a material conflict such as: spouses’ perception of the conflict, the other spouse, the conflict environment and themselves as participants in the conflict. The study also makes an evaluation of the efficiency of the influence of psychoanalytically oriented education on the information model of the spouse conflict and its particular elements.

Keywords: psychology, education, psychological assistance, spouses, marital conflicts, spouses’ knowledge, perception of a conflict, information model, efficiency, prevention measures.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2023.4.44150

Abstract: Taking into account the importance of the profession of medical workers and the need of citizens for affordable, timely and high-quality medical care, it is necessary to develop a set of organizational and psychological measures aimed at preserving the mental health and well-being of medical workers. At the same time, the primary importance is the protection of the psychological health of resident doctors who are at the initial stages of their careers, since not only correction, but also prevention of emotional disorders is possible during this period. The subject of the study is the organization of psychological assistance to resident doctors during the training period, as well as approaches to psychological support of medical activities. The object of the study is the implemented projects on psychological support of medical workers in Russia and abroad. The article describes in detail the directions of psychological support for medical workers, as well as the concept of a Center for psychological support for resident doctors.The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time the realized experience of mental health practices of medical workers in Russia and abroad has been generalized, which made it possible to develop and substantiate the Concept of a Center for Psychological support of resident doctors during the period of training under residency programs. The concept of the "Center for Psychological Support of resident doctors during training" is aimed at the implementation of psychological support for students under residency programs and advanced training of heads of medical organizations in the field of personnel management and creating favorable conditions at the workplace. To achieve this goal, the Center carries out activities in four main areas: psychological and psychiatric care, methodological work, educational and scientific activities, with the involvement of the following specialists: medical psychologists, psychologists of training programs, coach, psychiatrists, researchers and methodologist.

Keywords: psychological support center, mental health, psychology of work, organizational culture, burnout syndrome, medical psychology, residency, resident doctors, medical worker, protection of psychological health

Abstract: The article gives definition of professional adaptation and describes approaches to studying this phenomenon in psychology. The author of the article analyzes different studies and researches devoted to forms of adaptation, defines levels, criteria and stages of professional adaptation and reveals the nature of adaptiveness as an indicator of successful professional adaptation of youth to their health disabilities. The article proves the need in further researches of adaptation of young employees with health disabilities to their professional environment. Such researches suggest studying social, psychological, physiological and ergonomic components of their professional activities.

Keywords: The article gives definition of professional adaptation and describes approaches to studying this ph, defines levels, criteria and stages of professional adaptation and reveals the nature of adaptiveness as an indicato, psychological, physiological and ergonomic components of their professional activities.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2021.1.34960

Abstract: This article examines the problem of the formation of professional identity of the first and second year students majoring in psychology in relation to creativity. The authors cover the problem of professional identity of the students and its correlation with various parameters of creativity. The subject of this research is the peculiarities of interconnection between the professional identity and the parameters of creativity in psychology students of the first and second year students majoring in psychology. The article presents the results of preparatory stage of research of the role of creativity in the formation of professional identity. The sampling involved 100 junior students of the psychological faculty of Novosibirsk State Technical University. At this stage of empirical research, the author determined the peculiarities of the statuses pf professional identity and the parameters of creativity among junior students majoring in psychology, as well as interdependence of these psychological phenomena. The obtained results indicate positive correlations between the indefinite status of professional identity and the parameters of verbal creativity; as well as negative correlations between the moratorium of professional identity and the parameters of imagery creativity.

Keywords: parameters of creativity, professional identity of students, professional development, junior students, psychology students, creativity, professional identity, verbal creativity, imaginative creativity, professional identity statuses

Abstract: Modern Russian system of researches and relevant psychological classifications of professional activity is not quite a system but a system complex which does not guarantee complete and noncontradictory performance of all functions as well as achievement of relevant system tasks. The author gives a systematized conception of a new, integration-based typological approach to psychological classification of professional activity. The author also analyzes the structure and content of this approach. Integration-based typological approach to psychological classification of professional activity includes a set of methodological, theoretical and practical provisions and means aimed at construction, studying and practical usage of the summarized psychological classification of modern professional activity. One of the most important patterns of this classification is that both traditional and new types of professional activity have an adequate place and definition there.

Keywords: psychology, professional activity, labor subject, psychological classification, conception, approach, integration, typology, system complex, psychological types.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2024.2.70499

Abstract: Emotional burnout and professional maladaptation are quite common problems for many professionals who work with people, especially teachers. It is known that the phenomena under consideration can not only be related to each other, but also lead to serious problems with somatic and mental health, and can also provoke poor-quality, negligent performance of their duties, which, in turn, can lead to even greater negative consequences. To date, in the scientific literature there is practically no analysis of the connection between emotional burnout and neuropsychic maladjustment with other clinical and psychological characteristics of summer camp counselors. At the same time, the initial results of research into the level of burnout and work maladjustment indicate a fairly wide distribution of these phenomena. The purpose of our research was to study the relationship between the clinical and psychological characteristics of children's camp counselors and the level of their emotional burnout and neuropsychic maladjustment. The study involved 81 counselors from different children's camps with 24-hour stay. All employees completed a package of methods aimed at studying emotional burnout, neuropsychic maladaptation, motivation, personality structure, reflexivity, anxiety, communication skills, and emotional intelligence. The article presents the results of a study of correlations between indicators of emotional burnout, the level of neuropsychic maladaptation with other clinical and psychological characteristics of children's camp teachers. These phenomena are associated with a number of personal characteristics: anxiety, emotional intelligence, communicative competence, personality structure. In particular, counselors with a low level of burnout and a low level of maladjustment were characterized by sociability, trustfulness, emotional stability, an adequate reaction to conflict situations and a low level of anxiety. The results obtained are partially confirmed by our previous research and make a new contribution to the understanding of those factors that influence the state of counselors in terms of human capital. However, we also identified some contradictions in the data, such as the lack of a statistically significant connection between emotional burnout and the level of motivation. This indicates that motivation may play a less significant role in the formation of burnout among summer camp counselors compared to other professional groups, such as teachers. Of particular interest is the conclusion about the connection between the level of emotional burnout and neuropsychic maladjustment. There is a high level of maladaptation among counselors with a high level of burnout, which indicates a connection between these phenomena.

Keywords: motivation, communication skills, anxiety, emotional intelligence, maladaptation, personality structure, neuropsychic adaptation, burnout, reflexivity, counselors

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2020.4.34625

Abstract: Mediation has become an increasingly popular reconciliation procedure that allows increasing the psychological security of parties to the conflict in educational and social environment, as well as legal practice. The profession of mediator is highly demanded; however, the questions of professional competence of the specialists and requirements to their personality did not receive due coverage in the scientific literature. The goal of this research consist in development of the model of professional competence and assessment of the level of professional competences of mediators with varying degree of success in conduct of reconciliation procedures. A list of professional competences and their indicators mediators, considering the professional standard – “Specialist in the Field of Mediation (mediator)”. The research involved 42 mediators from Arkhangelsk Region. The following methods were applied: questionnaire (the author developed an original questionnaire for self-assessment of professional competences of the mediator), and psychological testing based on the Five-Factor Model of Personality of Costa and McCrae's in adaptation of M. V. Bodunov and S. D. Biryukov. Statistical processing was carried out via the method of descriptive statistics, correlation and step-type multivariate regression analyses (Pearson's chi-squared test) using the software SPSS 23.00 (license agreement No.Z125-3301-14). The following conclusion was made: the model of professional competences of mediator includes communication skills, conflict management, case study, planning, and self-control. The author developed and tested the questionnaire for self-assessment of professional competences of mediators that can be implemented via 360-degree feedback method. It is established that the successful outcome of reconciliation procedure is affected by such professional competences as self-control and communication skills. Out of the list of professionally important qualities of mediator, the author highlights activity, concreteness, openness, self-restraint, self-discipline, responsibility and sociability as directly related to the success of reconciliation procedures.

Keywords: success of conciliation procedures, professionally important qualities, professional suitability, professional competence, mediator, restorative mediation, professional standard, personel assessment, big five, self-esteem

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2023.2.40461

Abstract: At the moment, there are general requirements for personal and business qualities, regulated for use in the Department of Internal Affairs, while the features of their severity for future employees performing different areas of official activity are not noted. The study is devoted to identifying and describing the features of professionally important qualities of police officers with different performance and performing in different areas of official activity. The study involved 78 police officers of the city of Arkhangelsk. Research methods: questioning for assessing the parameters of the effectiveness of performance; psychological testing of professionally important qualities of employees using regulated methods. Statistical processing was carried out using descriptive statistics, two-stage cluster analysis, Pearson's χ2 contingency tables, and multivariate analysis of variance using the SPSS 23.00 software package. As a result of the study, police officers were divided into two groups in terms of the performance characteristics of their performance, and differences in the severity of professionally important qualities of the groups represented were identified and described. Differences were established between police officers of different professional orientations in the severity of attitude to work and motivation of professional activity, cognitive, socio-psychological and emotional-volitional qualities and properties. Employees with high performance in administrative and preventive activities are characterized by high responsibility and effective performance of activities; high-performing administrative and managerial employees are characterized by a work orientation and commitment to duty, higher levels of leadership potential and friendliness, as well as high self-control and a desire for cooperation and mutual assistance. Employees of the operational-investigative direction of activity are characterized by great self-confidence, objectivity and rationality.

Keywords: socio-psychological qualities, administrative and preventive direction, emotional and volitional qualities, intellectual qualities, administrative direction, operational-search direction, police officers, performance, professionally important qualities, professional selection

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2017.2.23301

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the coping behavior of military officers in terms of preservation of their professional and mental health. The object of the research is a few categories of respondents who have different experience in military service, in particular, conscripts, contract enlisted officers, students of Krasnodar Flight School, officers of the 4th army of the Southern Military District, retired combat veterans who participated in the War in Afghanistan, the First or the Second Chechen War. The research involved 229 military men in total. The objectives of the research were to study the mutual determination of respondents' choice of coping strategies and evaluation of the traumatic influence of the military service on them as well as to define significant differences in the patterns of coping strategies and evaluation of the traumatic event between different groups of respondents. The researchers used such methods as Impact of Event Scale offered by Horowitz and others and adapted by N. Tarabrina; Coping Behavior for Stressful Situations offered by Norman and others and adapated by T. Kryukova; and Strategic Approach to Coping Scale offered by Hobfoll and adapted by N. Vodopianova and E. Starchenkova. The statistical processing of data was carried out using the methods of discriptive analysis, one-factor and multiple linear regression analysis and comparison of independent samples using the Kruskal-Wallis H test. The results of the research have helped to discover differences in coping strategies chosen by respondents with low and high level of traumatic experience and to demonstrate that the mutual determination of coping and traumatisation are mediated by a number of factors: service conditions, interpersonal relations, missions, etc. The authors describe coping strategy patterns typical for different categories of military officers. The practical importance of the research is caused by the fact that the authors define coping strategy patterns that prevent psychological trauma of military officers and contribute to the development of their adaptation resources.

Keywords: regression analysis, inductees, cadets, rankers, officers, military personnel, adaptation resources, professional health, post-traumatic stress disorder, coping behavior

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2017.1.22853

Abstract: The study was sponsored by the Russian President's grant for state support of young Russian scientists and PhDs (MK-7500.2016.6). Industrial safety depends, first of all, on the employee himself or herself, not only his or her attitude to labor protection but also personal traits, feelings and efficiency of psychological self-regulation. The authors believe that locus control is one of the most important personal markers of the personnel psychological safety as a number of researchers (Eysenck, Emelianov, Kostrov, Kotik, Kulagin, Tsgoev, etc.) underline the relationship between them. The article is devoted to the study of the control locus as a personal marker of the psychological safety for oil and gas employees in the Arctic. To achieve this goal, a study was carried out at the oil and gas producing industry with a shift work organization in the territory of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (the duration of the rotation arrival is 30 days). The study involved 70 workers aged 24 to 60 years (the mean age is 38.7 ± 1.3). The work experience of the shifted method varies from 0.5 to 31 years (9.53 ± 1.2). Methods of research are studying documentation, monitoring the work process, questioning, psychophysiological and psychological testing, statistical methods of data analysis. Statistical methods of analysis are descriptive statistics; and multivariate variance analysis. Statistical processing of data was carried out using the statistical package IBM SPSS Statistics (licensing agreement No. Z125-3301-14 (SAO named after Lomonosov)). The most important parameters of the control locus, which have a statistically significant relationship with most components of the psychological safety of oil and gas workers in the Arctic, are internality in health and disease, in interpersonal and family relationships, and in the field of failures. It has been revealed that in order to provide psychological safety for oil and gas specialists in shift work organization in Arctic conditions, it is necessary to have a moderate level of externality in the field of failures, and there is a moderate internal locus of control in the field of health and illness, family and interpersonal relations.

Keywords: internality of failures, psychological labor regulators, functional states, externality, internality, locus of control, oil production, shift work, psychological safety, internality of health

Abstract: The article describes an approach to the study of the professional activity of teacher in the light of the doctrine of integral individuality. The author analyzes connection between the professional activity of a primary school teacher and educational activity of his students, describes the study management and methods of research and introduces the results of studying the place of professional activity in the structure of integral individuality of primary school teachers, as well as metaindividuality manifestations of their professional activity.

Keywords: psychology, activity, teacher, professional, student, third-graders, learning, individuality, metaindividuality, structure

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2017.4.24720

Abstract: The article is devoted to particularities of physiological indicators of military servcewomen with different levels of occupational adaptation to studying at a military university under the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. The object of the research is servicewomen who study at N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy and Mozhaisky Military Space Academy. The subject of the research is psychophysiological features of servicewomen in the process of their military adaptation. The purpose of the research is to define psychophysiological features of servicewomen with different levels of occupational adaptation to studying at a military university. The research involved 122 female senior students of a military university. Based on their academic success and expert evaluation of their service using the cluster analysis method, women were divided into two groups, more successful and less successful. Comparative analysis was carried out using Student t-test. The main conclusion of the research is that more successful servicewomen have a faster and more productive response to difficult or stress situations (under noise conditions, lack of time or monotony). Less successful females experienced stressed which could cause worse adaptation to studying at a military university.

Keywords: sensorimotor reaction, heart rate variability, psycho-physiological test, military educational institution, training, time deficit, adaptation, woman, serviceman, monotonia

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2019.3.30555

Abstract: Restorative mediation is rapidly developing in both, criminal cases and educational institutions. This model is based on the principles of restorative justice, and allows reassessing the conflict, find the way out of it, restore relations, and offer apologies. Restorative mediation holds an important place, as it contributes to resolution of problems of socialization of a child in the education sphere and prevention of deviant behavior, formation of law-abiding behavior, resolving conflict situations and criminal cases of courts, schools, and commissions on juvenile offences and protection of their rights. An important role in this procedure belongs to a trained professional of the restorative process – mediator. Specificity of their personality impacts the success of the mediation process. The goal of this research consists in determination of peculiarities of the mediator’s personality in various degree of success of the restorative procedure. The research is based on participation of 61 mediators. The work presents the analysis of development of mediation in the Arkhangelsk Region, provides the psychological characteristics of successful mediators, determines peculiarities of the mediators with various degree of success in conducting a restorative procedure, and makes recommendations on optimization of the training of mediators. The study is carried out within the framework of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research No. 19-011-00385 “Mediation in Criminal Cases on Offences against Minors: current state and development prospects”, 2019-2021.

Keywords: restorative justice, crimes, occupational analysis, minors, conciliation agreement, professionally important qualities, professional success, mediator, restorative mediation, territorial reconciliation services

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2019.1.28794

Abstract: The subject of this research is the regular patterns of stress resistance demonstrated by the staff of psychological support for cancer patients. Pogibenko analyzes psychological types of stress resistence of the staff of psychological support for cancer patients and describe psychological components which configuration is determined by a particular type of stress resistance demonstrated by the staff that render psychological support of cancer patients. The author also describes each type and defines the relationship between different kinds of stress resistance and success of their professional activity with cancer patients. The research methodology included a set of research methods selected as part of the summative and formative assessment. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the types of stress resistance demonstrated by the staff working in the in the psychological support for cancer patients complete the theory and practice of the labor psychology. The researcher emphasizes the need to evaluate stress resistance criteria of individuals who want to work in the psychological support for cancer patients.

Keywords: components of stress resistance, labor psychology, stress factors of labor, professional activity, cancer patients, staff psychological support, psychological type, psychological components, psychological support for cancer patients, stress resistance

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem related to existing views on the narcissistic type of personality. A number of researchers and schools view this type as a subtype of hysterical personality while others assume it to be an independent personal type. In this article the author tried to analyzed and compare existing approaches in order to find the most valid and effective theories which could be used in psychological counseling.

Keywords: psychology, type, personality, narcissism, counseling, hysteria, disorder, diagnostics, specification, classification

Abstract: Modern school creates necessary conditions for dealing with life important challenges students are faced with after graduation. One of such challenges is a professional identification. We can say that identification is a research aimed at a student himself. Any profession may create situations when a specialist has to get involved in a research activity. Some professions require it quite often. One of the means of forming research skills of students who want to specialists in logics is information technologies which are widely used in professional activities of a specialist in logistics. Using information technologies in the process of school training enable to involve high school students into salvation of problems, the latter being an important part of professional activity in logistics. In its turn, it helps students to make a conscious choice of their future profession.

Keywords: teaching, education, skill, research, logistics, profession, senior high school student, technology, choice, information.

Abstract: This article is devoted to methodological grounds of preliminary tolerance of retired officers to extreme situations during professional military activities. Based on peculiarities of professional activity of a mobilization reserve the author proves the topicality of the study of preliminary tolerance of a retired officer to extreme situations. The mentioned above study is based on a human- centered paradigm and related general scientific approaches to a research: personal-activity, axiological, subjective humanitarian and spiritual approaches.

Keywords: psychology, preliminary tolerance, professional military activity, military training, retired officer, system of values, patriotism, morals, spirituality, military duty, extreme situations

Abstract: The author of the article offers a psychological typology of information-based professional activity. This study represents application of an information-based approach to psychological research of information-based professional activity. The author of the article discusses the established methods of determination of information-psychological parameters of economist’s labor stations that lies at the root of classification. The author also makes a hypothesis about the established typology of labor stations being one of the most important determinants of psychological structure of the studied activity.

Keywords: psychology, professional activity, psychological typology, information environment, psychological support, information- based approach, labor station, application, methods, psychological structure.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2017.1.23265

Abstract: The object of the research is the functional reliability of traffic police officers. The subject of the research is the relationship between psychophysical well-being and working capacity of traffic police officers as the factors of trafic police officer's functional reliability determinants (indicators). The author of the article analyzes such aspects of the topic as the algorithm for defining the most important factors of functional reliability for traffic police officers as well as the informational content of these factors and the relationship between them. The author of the article pays special attention to the contents of determinant factors of traffic police officers' functional reliability, analysis of various views and opinions on the matter. In his research the author has used the observation method, tests, survey, as well as hardware facilities to evaluate the level of psychophysical well-being and methods of mathematical statistics. The main conclusions of the research are as follows: psychophysiological well-being and working capacity are determinant fractors of traffic police officers' working capacity; and there is a significant relationship between these factors. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author proves the viability of using new ideas on working capacity and psychophysiological well-being as determinant factors of traffic police officers' functional reliability.

Keywords: mental health, segmental diagnostics, traffic police officer, complication, efficiency, working capacity, psychophysical well-being, functional reliability, reliability, determinant factor

Abstract: The author gives a more profound definition of the term ‘emotional exhaustion’ and describes psychological peculiarities of emotional exhaustion of psychologists and teachers. According to the authors, these peculiarities include: higher than average level of self-confidence, average level of accumulated emotions and energy kept inside, medium level of activity, asthenia, euphoria, calmness-anxiety, vitality-fatigue, elated-suppressed moods. The author particularly underlines that when arranging preventive measures, it is necessary to take into account the following results of the study: absence of anxiety and depression, below average level of neurosis, neurotization and feeling of helplessness, above average level of well-being and mood.

Keywords: activity, asthenia, helplessness, depression, mood, neurosis, professional adaptation, professional deformation, well-being, calm, anxiety, self-confidence, fatigue, euphoria, emotional exhaustion, vitality

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2020.1.29266

Abstract: The subject of this article is the development of psychological model for assessing personal and professional suitability of IT staff in government organizations applicable in human resource management. Firstly, the author highlights personality and professional traits, builds a mathematical model that allows correlating the manifestation of these traits (grouped into modules-predicators) with professional aptitude of IT personnel. Secondly, the author builds a formal-mathematical model on the bases of multiple linear regression equation for assessing the manifestation of personality and professional qualities using the psychodiagnostic methods at the stage of job placement of IT professionals. The scientific novelty consists in the analysis of literature that demonstrated insufficient research dedicated to professionally important qualities of IT personnel, as well as rare application of psychological modeling as the means for job placement and assessment of employees in all spheres. The main conclusion lies in determination of veracity of psychodiagnostic means for assessment of personal and professional suitability of IT personnel. The acquired model can be valuable in future research of professional aptitude, as well as implemented in human resource management.

Keywords: personal and professional qualities, IT-personnel, personnel evaluation, personal and professional suitability, formal mathematical model, psychological model, modeling, professional selection, personnel selection, professional efficiency

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2019.1.28973

Abstract: The aim of this research is to carry out an empirical analysis of the development of responsible attitudes of cadets to their service activity as part of their education at a military university. The rationale of this research is caused by an obvious lack of researches on responsible attitude of cadets to their service activity. Sorokin offers a new inventory to define the level of responsible attitude of military men to their service. The research was carried at Saratovsky Military Institute of the Russian Federation National Forces. The results can be used by teams of psychological screening at military universities. In the course of writing his article Sorokin tested obvious and content validity. As a result of it, the author defines that his inventory is a reliable and valid diagnostic tool that allows to define the level of responsible attitude of military men to their service within a short period of time. The results can be used in the work of recruiting and psychological screening teams.

Keywords: service activity, responsibility, cadets, validity, method development, reliability, responsible attitude, serviceman, socialization, fruit

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2019.4.30791

Abstract: This article defines the concept of “professional task” and expounds the psychological structure of the process of solving a professional task by a subject of activity. Professional task means a unit of content of professional activity of a specialist in a particular area. The process of solving a professional task represents activity aimed at forming efficient model of solution on the bases of previous experience, existing algorithms and heuristics, in order to find functional and specific solution, as well as achievement of a goal under the set circumstances common for this type of activity. The methodological framework consists of the theoretical analysis, generalization and systematization of approaches towards determination of the essence and psychological structure of the task-solving process conducted by Russian and foreign researchers and practitioners. Analysis of the works of Russian and foreign authors devoted to solution of professional tasks allowed formulating theoretical grounds for diagnostics of success rate of task solving by a subject of professional activity. This article outlines the positions applicable for subsequent research of the process of solving professional tasks by a subject of activity with consideration of objective and subjective sides of the task.

Keywords: mental operators, heuristic strategies, thinking, subject-activity approach, subject of activity, professional activity, solution of professional tasks, representation, operational thinking, operational pattern

Abstract: Sex education is necessary in every family. It is important to start sex education from an early age. Moreover, atmosphere in the family, mutual respect between parents, correct and delicate sex education make a teenager respect the most important part of human life, - relationships between a man and a woman. Very important condition for successful sex education is trustful relations between parents and their children, parents’ skills in teaching and the proper information according to the age requirements of children

Keywords: psychology, teaching, morals, sex, education, family, school, development, parents, age

Abstract: The article is devoted to a form of socialization through anti-social play activity typical for teenagers’ communities during the 2000th in post-Soviet countries. Such teenagers’ games are analyzed from the point of view of social conceptions by Huizinga, Debora, Ortega y Gasset, Baudrillard as well as the most significant achievements of Russian education by Vygotsky, Makarenko and others. The article will be of interest to teachers and leaders of special organizations as well as for parents whose children are growing teenagers.

Keywords: psychology, teenagers, re-socialization, deviation, sub-culture, asocial, society, activity, game, approach.

Abstract: Success is one of the most important criteria of performance appraisal in a modern society. The author of the article describes criteria o success of a teacher as well as peculiarities of teaching teenagers. Base on the described criteria and peculiarities, the author formulates the factors which have the most influence on achievement of success in a teacher’s activity at senior classes.

Keywords: psychology, success, teacher, school, teenager, activity, communication, senior, career guidance.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2018.3.26732

Abstract: The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as theoretical approaches to the understanding of personal identity, the ontogeny of this phenomenon, considers the basis for identifying professional identity, and gives a theoretical analysis of the characteristics of the manifestation of professional identity statuses. Conducts an empirical study to identify the characteristics of the manifestations of the status of professional identity in persons with disabilities from childhood with intact intelligence. In this regard, the object of study was identified - professional identity and the subject of study - the status of the professional identity of disabled children. In the course of the study, the methods of studying professional identity (MIPI) of LB were used. Schneider, methodology V. V. Stolin, S. R. Panteleyev “Self-relation”. To compare the empirical values of two independent samples, the non-parametric statistical method was used: the Mann-Whitney U-test and the Chi-square test. The main conclusion of the study is that the identified features of the manifestations of professional identity in persons with disabilities from childhood with intact intelligence, as well as persons without disabilities is not only in the nosological status, but also in the process of social development and professional development of the individual.

Keywords: Professional activity, Personal features, Identity, Disabled, Self-attitude, Identity Statuses, Professional Identity, Self-determination, Subjects, Disabled in childhood

Abstract: The article specifies the definition of psychological readiness for professional activity taking into account modern peculiarities of electric power industry. Self-regulation is viewed as an important element of psychological readiness of students studying to be engineers in various spheres of electric power industry.

Keywords: psychology, labor psychology, power industry, difficult situations, students, psychological readiness, psychological readiness for activity, self-regulation, regulatory processes, locus of control, professionally important qualities

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.1.9704

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2018.1.24214

Abstract: The object of the research is the psychological literacy as an integral personality concept. The subject of the research is the axiological component of psychologial literacy as a personal feature of employees with different professional duties. The purpose of the article is to define differences in axiological components of psychological literacy of employees with different professional duties. The author examines such aspects of the topic as a definition of psychological literacy of employees and defines differences in axiological components of psychological literacy of employees with different professional duties and carries out a comparative analysis of groups of managers and programmers. The research methods and technologies include the following: 1. Monographic method (theoretical analysis of Russian and foreign literature). 2. Comparative method (comparison of the results depending in a certain criterion in different groups of respondents). Psychological tests: 3. Schwartz Value Scale. 4. Psychological Literacy Inventory by O. Motkov. 5. Panteleev Self-Awareness Test. Statistical methods: 6. Spearman correlation analysis. 7. Mann–Whitney U test. The main conclusions of the research are: 1. Differences are caused by particular features of certain professional duties. 2. Not only professional qualities but also personality traits influence productivity of employees. 3. Professional duties have a certain effect on selection of behavioral patterns by an employee. 4. To increase productivity, managers are recommended to develop their personality, and programmers are recommended to develop their social skills. 5. By developing his or her psychological literacy, an employee develops professional and personal skills.

Keywords: professional activity, groups of respondents, axiological component, personal self-awareness, values, personality traits, professional qualities, programmer, manager, psychological literacy

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.1.63938

Abstract: The article is aimed at studying the influence of gender identity of the ethnocultural appearance on the degree of positive attitude and evaluation. The author of the article makes an assumption that the degree of positive evaluation based on one’s appearance may be conditioned by the ethnocultural and gender identity. The author of the article provides the results of the comparative analysis of positive/negative esthetic evaluations, attractiveness for the opposite sex and the degree of correspondence of the appearance of different ethnocultural groups to the male or female gender. The author of the article used a modified variant of ‘the estimation and interpretation of the appearance and its correspondence to the gender and age constructs’ (published by v. A. Labunskaya in 2009). This method evaluated the following types of appearance: slavic appearance, caucasian appearance and asian appearance as well as their gender identity. The author shows that there is a statistically significant difference in the degree of positive evaluations of different appearances depending on the ethnocultural type. The gender identity of the person being evaluated also has an influence on the degree of positive evaluations of particular types of appearance.

Keywords: gender, ethno-cultural appearance, Slavic appearance, Caucasian appearance, Asian appearance, degree of positive assessment, discrimination, ethnocultural group, integral assessment.

Abstract: The concept of psychological service in modern formation is presented in the article. The given concept is caused by social tendencies, as well as actual problems of pedagogical interoperability in educational process. It can be realized in the form of teacher-psychologist’s activity system in the higher school which, in turn, can raise quality of formation.

Keywords: psychology, service, concept, interaction, lecturer, student, confl ict, education, process, university

Abstract: The article studies the attitude to industrial workers’ labor during the economic crisis. The results of the study cast light on professional peculiarities of attitudes to industrial workers’ labor. The author of the article also gives recommendations on how to use the results of the study in practical work.

Keywords: psychology, attitude, labor, values, motivation, satisfaction, crisis, industry, enterprise, worker.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2018.1.24854

Abstract: This article is devoted to the comparative analysis of particularities of coping strategies used by law enforcement officers working with documents and law enforcement officers reacting to calls. The object of the research is the coping strategies of law enforcement officers. The subject of the research is the particularities of coping strategies of law enforcement officers with different professional duties. The hypothesis of the research is that there are certain particularities of using coping strategies by law enforcement officers with different professional duties, in particular, officers working with documents and officers reacting to calls. The research implies the use of the theoretical method and empirical method (psychological tests). In particular, the authors have used the following tests: Coping Strategies Inventory (R. Lazarus and S. Folkman), Coping Strategy Indicator (G. Amirxan), Stress Resistance and Social Adaptation Test (T. Holmes and R. Rage), Self-Regulation Behavioral Style - SSP 98 (V. Morosanova) and Mann–Whitney U test as the mathematical method. The research involved 120 people: 60 officers working with documents and 60 officers reacting to calls. The results of the research demonstrate significant difference between officeres reacting to calls and officers working with documents. In particular, such scales as Problem Resolution Strategy, Search of Social Support Strategy (Coping Strategy Indicator of G. Amirxan), Confrontation, Flight-Avoidance, Problem Solution Planning, Admission of Responsibility (Coping Strategies Inventory by R. Lazarus and S. Folkman), Programming, Flexibility, Independence, Result Evaluation (Self-Regulation Behavioral Style - SSP-98 by I. Morosanova).

Keywords: personal resources, professional deformation, police officers, professional stress, stress resistance, coping, coping strategies, coping behavior, law enforcement agencies, extreme conditions of activity

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2018.3.27331

Abstract: The aim of the work was to consider the value of creativity in solving problem situations in the process of professional activity. The object of this article is a professional activity. The subject of study - the key aspects of creativity in their professional activities. The author considers creativity in detail as a factor in solving a problem situation in a regulated and unregulated activity. It reveals aspects of the influence of activity on the specifics of the manifestation of creativity and its influence on the person. The author highlights the key points that characterize the main aspects of the dialectics of interaction and the connection between creativity, personality and professional activity. As the main method, the authors use theoretical analysis with the use of classification, analysis and synthesis. The methodological basis was taken activity and personal approaches. The conclusion of the study is that, based on the analysis of the dialectical relationship of creativity with professional activity, the activity-creative and personal-creative aspects of the manifestation of creativity in professional activity are highlighted. Of particular importance is the disclosure of the activity-creative aspect as a relationship, including the influence of activity on the specifics of the manifestation of creativity and the influence of creativity on professional activities, and the personal-creative aspect as the influence of the individual on the specifics of the manifestation of creativity and the influence of creativity on the person.

Keywords: aspects of creativity, development, efficiency, personality, problem situations, contradictions, creation, professional sphere, professional activity, creativity in detail

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2023.3.43982

Abstract: The rapid improvement of weapons and military equipment of anti-aircraft missile forces, the complication of the tasks assigned to the calculations of modern anti-aircraft missile systems and the conditions for their implementation, necessitates taking into account the human factor and revising the requirements for operational personnel, due to the increased impact of the psychological component of their professional activities. This article actualizes the problem of psychological support for the reliability of the professional activities of operators of anti-aircraft missile systems. The main stages of a professional study of the professional activities of operators of anti-aircraft missile systems, carried out in order to improve the methods of their selection and professional training, are described. An expanded list of professionally important qualities formed as a result of the study, which the operator of an anti-aircraft missile system must have for successful activity, as well as a list of integral professionally important qualities, is presented. The results of the study can be used in the selection of methods for identifying and determining the level of development of integral professionally important qualities of operators of complex technical systems for military purposes at the stages of selection and training.

Keywords: professiography, professionally important qualities, anti-aircraft missile troops, anti-aircraft missile system, operator, professional activity, engineering psychology, research, human-machine system, military training

Abstract: The article describes and explains factor structure of graduate’s readiness for professional self-actualization (based on the employer’s expert survey). The author of the article provides the results of the method of free associations used when studying the entire combination of features (characteristics) of such a structure. The author also shows the structure of integration of factors and features of graduate’s readiness for professional self-actualization based on the factor analysis.

Keywords: psychology, graduates, employers, readiness for professional self-actualization, method of free associations, characteristics (features), method of expert survey, factor structure, factors, factor loadings.

Abstract: The article studies the problem of formation of professional and practical competence in information sciences and mathematics at universities teaching economics. The author of the article describes the pedagogical and didactical conditions of its formation based on the analysis of a university class ‘Computer Models in Economics’. The article considers possibilities of application of mathematic modeling as a mean of formation of professional and practical competence in information sciences and mathematics of future specialists in the sphere of economics. The author of the article defines the role of vocationally oriented tasks in the process of formation of professional and practical competence in information sciences and mathematics at universities teaching economics.

Keywords: pedagogy, competence, information, economics, processes, mathematics, modeling, tasks, student, profession.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2021.4.35802

Abstract: The subject of this research is the methods of psychological support of flight activity, which explicate the theory of Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor D. V. Gander on psychological support of flight activity. The author explores such questions as making decisions by pilot as the operator of ergatic system, with emphasis on the psychological aspects of flight activity on modern aircrafts and formation of professional competencies of the pilot. The research methodology is based on the systemic approach and encompasses theoretical-analytical and generalizing methods, longitudinal analysis, collection of empirical data, analysis of pilot activity through studying documentation and expert survey, professiography, and mathematical statistics. The scientific novelty is defined by the developed model of personal potential of the pilot from the perspective of holistic representation on the specificity and dynamics of the development of personal potential. The study of psychological professionally important qualities led to the creation of the factor model of personal potential of the pilot; while qualitative analysis of the acquired data allowed interpreting the content of personal potential from the perspective of systemic approach. Thus, the hypothesis is proven that the success of mastering flight activity depends not so much on the absolute values of the development of professionally important qualities, but on the specifically organized structure of qualities that form personal potential of the pilot. It is also stated that the achievements in flight activity are the most significant indicator of the status of development of personal potential.

Keywords: aviation psychology, model of personal potential, professional psychological selection, psychological support of activities, psychology of flight work, personal potential of a pilot, operator of the ergatic system, education of flight personnel, training of flight personnel, flight safety

Abstract: This is the translation of O. Rank’s book ‘Will Therapy, Truth and Reality’ in which O. Rank discusses peculiarities of a neurotic personality.

Keywords: psychology, psychotechnics, will, therapy, truth, reality, neurosis.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2021.4.37033

Abstract: This article provides a brief overview of the results of theoretical and empirical research of professional motives in activity of the executives in the sphere of municipal administration in the Russian Federation, taking into consideration the impact of priority professional motives upon the effective performance of the major job functions. The object of this research is the professional motivation of the executives in the sphere of municipal administration, whole the subject is interrelation between the effectiveness of performance of the head of municipal administration and their motivation for the implementation of such activity. The authors dwell on the leading motives of activity, effectiveness of the performance, and municipal administration; as well as determine the gender aspect of motivation among the executives of municipal administration. Leaning on the theoretical-methodological analysis of scientific approaches towards examination of the professional activity of the executive, clarification is given to the motivational structure that determines the effectiveness of the performance. The article expands the conceptual theoretical-methodological framework of labor psychology, as well as gives clarification to the existing concepts. The personal and professional characteristics of the head of municipal administration that determine the effectiveness of their professional activity are supplemented: professional skills and competencies essential for the executive to solve the key tasks and issues within their job functions alongside the personal qualities: high intellectual abilities, masculine behavioral pattern and conservatism among female executives, manifestation of femininity in the behavior of male executives, authoritativeness, scrupulousness in responsible situations, need for recognition, remuneration, and self-improvement.

Keywords: municipality, management, leader, professional activity, efficiency, personality components, job functions, professional motives, professional qualities, gender

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2023.3.43759

Abstract: The study is devoted to the level of self-esteem and its role in the emotional burnout syndrome in law enforcement officers. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the role of self-esteem in the emotional burnout syndrome among law enforcement officers and to compare the content and dynamic characteristics of respondents receiving and not receiving psychotherapeutic help. The subject of the study: the possibility of forming an adequate self-esteem of police officers through the use of psychotherapeutic correction methods. Experimental base of the study: SibUI of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Krasnoyarsk). Experimental sample of the study: 37 police officers (trainees of the Faculty of Vocational Training), males aged 21 to 35 years. Research methods: "Diagnostics of the level of emotional burnout" V. V. Boyko, "Self-assessment test of personality" S. A. Budassi. In the course of the research, the author developed and implemented a psychotherapeutic program with elements of art therapy. Data processing was carried out using the IBM SPSS Statistics 24 program. To determine the relationship according to the methods, the correlation coefficient of C. E. Spearman was used. Statistically significant differences in self-esteem and burnout syndrome have been established. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the development of a psychotherapeutic aimed at correcting the low self-esteem of police officers with emotional burnout syndrome. The obtained research results and the developed psychotherapeutic program can form the basis of scientific and methodological recommendations for improving the training and advanced training of psychologists, medical psychologists, employees of government agencies responsible for the mental health of personnel.

Keywords: psychocorrection program, professional activity, law enforcement officers, prevention, self-esteem, chronic stress, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, emotional stress, emotional burnout, psychotherapeutic assistance

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2023.4.69121

Abstract: The increasing complexity of the tasks assigned to modern anti-aircraft missile systems and the conditions for their use necessitate taking into account the human factor and revising the requirements for operational personnel, due to the increasing impact of the psychological component of their professional activities. The effectiveness of the professional activities of operators of anti-aircraft missile systems is determined by the level of expression of a number of professionally important qualities. The formation of a set of informative standardized psychodiagnostic methods that make it possible to determine the level of professionally important qualities of operators of anti-aircraft missile systems at the stages of selection and training is an urgent task. The study of the effectiveness of the use of tests and questionnaires proposed in these works, their reliability and validity, made it possible to identify a set of the most suitable psychodiagnostic techniques. The selection of psychodiagnostic techniques was carried out taking into account their practicality in relation to the peculiarities of operator activity. This article updates the integral professionally important qualities characteristic of the professional activities of operators of anti-aircraft missile systems. The author pays special attention to the results of the study of existing methods for assessing professionally important qualities, and provides a set of selected psychodiagnostic methods for identifying and studying the professionally important qualities of operators of anti-aircraft missile systems. The use of selected psychodiagnostic techniques at the stages of selection and professional training of operators of anti-aircraft missile systems will reduce the screening of unsuitable persons during the training process, reduce the accident rate of serviced equipment due to personnel errors, increase the reliability of control systems, and also reduce the cost of training operators.

Keywords: psychodiagnostics, professionally important qualities, military training, techniques, anti-aircraft missile forces, anti-aircraft missile system, professional activity, operator, engineering psychology, abilities

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2022.4.38837

Abstract: The subject of this study is the peculiarities of the socio-psychological climate in the apparatus of the Government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the satisfaction of employees with their work. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in the process of political interaction of subjects of political communication, the socio-psychological climate determines a lot. Assessing the current situation, some politicians and sociologists note the need for purposeful formation of a socio-psychological climate for more productive and effective work, since it can be a tool that helps not only to build relations between politicians with each other, but also to correct the socio-political state, improve the psychological climate in society, regulate public relations. The study was conducted on the basis of the Government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in three departments with a total of 62 people. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the unfavorable socio-psychological climate prevails in the apparatus of the Government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in two departments (negative values according to the methodology of O.S. Mikhalyuk and A.Y. Shalyto). According to the survey results, many employees do not want to get to know each other better, spend time informally together, and maintain friendly ties. The integral majority of satisfaction with work in teams (according to the method of N.P. V. Fetiskin) is also low in two departments, which indicates the disadvantage of employees in this team, dissatisfaction with work is observed, which means that employees do not make special efforts to achieve the best result of their work, employees are not satisfied with the relationship in the team and prefer to work alone. Correlation analysis showed between climate and job satisfaction: in a favorable socio-psychological climate, the level of job satisfaction in the team is high, in an unfavorable socio-psychological climate – low

Keywords: Government, control, employees, team, atmosphere, job satisfaction, socio-psychological climate, climate, Organization, society

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2023.4.69341

Abstract: The article presents the results of an empirical study that focuses on the characteristics of occupational stress of coders. The research sample consisted of programmers aged 22 to 55 years. Respondents who participated in the study have a higher technical education and live and work in the territory of the Russian Federation. The participants in the empirical study, conducted as part of this work, voluntarily expressed their willingness to participate in the survey. The methods used in the study allowed for a multifactor assessment of the symptoms of occupational stress of programmers and the identification of the degree of its expression and qualitative characteristics among the surveyed. Psychodiagnostic methods aimed at determining the severity of occupational stress and the diagnosis of the formation of phases and symptoms of burnout, were selected for the study. To process the data obtained from the respondents through the Integral Diagnostics and Correction of Occupational Stress (IDICS) methodology developed by Leonova A.B., a corresponding computer program was used. The data obtained as a result of the conducted research allowed us to consider various aspects of the severity of occupational stress of the survey sample. The resulting assessment of the stress level made it possible to identify the main high and extremely high indicators of the severity of occupational stress of the respondents, diagnosed as part of a multi-level assessment of professional stress, indicate the relevance of considering the formation of a set of measures to prevent the occurrence of occupational stress of coders. In accordance with the research materials on the formation of phases and symptoms of burnout syndrome, the phases of tension and resistance are most formed among the surveyed programmers. Based on the data obtained from the analysis of the results of the preventive part of the Integral Diagnostics and Correction of Occupational Stress (IDICS) methodology, the article formulates recommendations for selecting a set of optimization measures in accordance with the identified specificity of stress.

Keywords: integral diagnostics, occupational activity, stressor, informational stress, IT professionals, programmers, occupational stress factors, emotional burnout syndrome, occupational stress, prevention of occupational stress

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.2.10800

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.2.64036

Abstract: The article is devoted to the basic trends and approaches to studying professional culture of design engineers. Professional culture of design engineers is viewed from the point of view of disciplinary and general methodological approaches which provides grounds for creating a methodological construct necessary for researching the actual status of professional culture in the modern Russian society and understanding possibilities of its transformation into the innovative type of culture. Analysis of existing approaches makes it possible to conclude that there are certain theoretical and methodological issues in interpreting professional culture. Each approach views only one side of professional culture and focuses only one certain aspects which creates different definitions of professional culture. The author of the article views the following approaches to studying professional culture: philosophical, cultural, personality-oriented, value-oriented, social and psychological, spiritual and moral, professional and activity-based, professional and stratificational and others. In this regard, the author makes an attempt to view professional culture from different points of view. Based on the above mentioned theoretical and methodological provisions and in accordance with the listed signs of engineering as a profession, the author clarifies the definition of ‘professional culture of design engineers’. The approaches defined by the author play a principal role for methodology and worldview because they create different coordinates for understanding and studying professional culture of design engineers.

Keywords: psychology, professionalism, culture, design engineers, approaches to studying, interpretation, special features, researches, construct, transformation.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2023.4.69301

Abstract: The subject of the study is the psychological resources of the senior staff of departments and faculties of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The purpose of the research is to study the relationship between subjective representations of the success and effectiveness of the professional activities of managers and their resource availability. It was suggested that a large number of requirements imposed on the leadership of departments and faculties will actualize the psychological resources of the personality of managers with high efficiency of professional activity and lead to depletion of resources with low efficiency of professional activity. The study involved 376 heads and deputy heads of departments and faculties of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with service experience in the internal affairs bodies from 2 to 38 years, in office from several months to 29 years. In order to collect empirical data, the following methods were used: author's questionnaire; questionnaire "Strategies for overcoming stressful situations" by S. E. Hobfoll; "Questionnaire of proactive coping behavior" by E. Greenglas, R. Schwarzer and S. Taubert; questionnaire of "Psychological capital" by A. Bakker; "Test of resilience" by S. Maddi; "Test of life orientations" by J. Crambo and L. Maholika. The results of the study indicate that the self-assessment of the professional effectiveness and success of the management of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reflects the level of its resource availability. In general, the results of the study indicate a high resource availability of the senior staff of departments and faculties of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In addition, based on subjective representations of the professional effectiveness and success of the leaders of this group, it is possible to predict the choice of constructive and proactive coping strategies that act as psychological resources of the individual: the higher the head evaluates the effectiveness of his professional activity, the more often he implements constructive and proactive coping strategies. The most significant contribution of the study is that its results can be used for an operational assessment of the actual resource availability of the head when conducting group and/or individual psychological support work by a psychologist.

Keywords: requirements, resource security, psychological support, educational organizations, management, success, effectiveness, professional stress, psychological resources, resources

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2013.2.62398

Abstract: The article is based on the results of the empirical study of influence of empathy on doctor’s activities. Empathy is beneficial both for a patient and a doctor in the healing process. For doctors, empathy releases stress, exhaustion and makes a doctor feel better. For patients empathy based relations encourage them to follow the therapeutic regimen and feel satisfied with the doctor, improve the life quality and understand and accept medical information better. Medical treatment has certain specifics such as a wide differentiation of professional knowledge and skills and diversity of professionally important qualities necessary for performing this kind of activity. Modern health service is traditionally divided into the two kinds of medical assistance: therapeutic (conservative) and surgical (operative). Surgeon’s and therapist’s job analysis presents different requirements for professionally important qualities of these specialists. For instance, a surgeon must have such qualities as attention, good thinking abilities and will power. Therapist must have compassion, diligence, accuracy, communicative abilities and etc. The research shows the connection between the structure of empathy and efficient performance of therapists and surgeons and proves that empathy is an important quality for a therapist. Based on the results of the research, the author describes the structure of empathy of surgeons and therapists and the leading channels of their empathy structures. The author also shows the different influence of empathy on doctors majoring in different fields.

Keywords: psychology, professionally important qualities, doctor’s activities, doctor’s job requirements, doctor’s empathy, structure of therapist’s and surgeon’s empathy, leading channels of doctor’s empathy, polycommunicative empathy, empathy abilities, empathy.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.2.13639

Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of personality and intellectual characteristics of enrollees seeking medical specialty in 2014. The authors of the article provide the general description of students and identify the components of intellectual and personal development requiring special attention in accordance with the professional career choice. The authors also indicate possible difficulties that may be faced by the students during the process of education and prospects for overcoming these difficulties within the framework of the educational activity. Thus, the research subject is the diagnostic results and answers of the students to the questions presented in the 'Professional Orientation' test. It is proved that modern students have: a high potential in research activities; focus on analytical, technical work rather than on interaction with people; tendency towards conformity and risk minimization in their activity. Therefore, the orientation of the teaching staff at developing one's personal position is important for future doctors and personal growth in general.

Keywords: analysis of variance, professional career choice, factor analysis, personal development, intellectual development, medical specialty, diagnostics, enrollee, student, applicant, career-oriented techniques, statistics

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.2.66262

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.3.14172

Abstract: The relevance of this study due to the lack of data in the scientific literature describing the presentation of graduates of economic profile about professional competencies needed to perform their future careers. Article is devoted to subjective importance of professional competencies for future economic activity of the graduates of financial and economic profile. The object of study is a professional activity and professional competence of economists. Scope of the work: the subjective assessment of professional competence of economists. The article provides a comparative psychological analysis of four economic profile professions: economist, auditor, accountant, banker. There are analyzed 160 graduates of the financial and credit department at the age of 23 to 43 years inclusive (mean age - 23,03 ± 0,6), with experience from 0 to 12 years (2,4 ± 0,2), 10 men, 150 women. According to the subjective assessment of communicative competence and Gnostic considered by respondents as the most important; the least represented a creative block. It is determined that graduates with experience in economic activity, have a more realistic view on the future of the economist, because the presence of entrepreneurial and organizational skills are the hallmark of the profession and the accounting profession.

Keywords: auditor, financier, professional competence, economists, subjective evaluation, the graduates of financial and economic profile, booker, banker, communicative competence, gnostic competence

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.3.66364

Keywords: auditor, financier, professional competence, economists, subjective evaluation, the graduates of financial and economic profile, booker, banker, communicative competence, gnostic competence

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.4.14745

Abstract: The article draws the attention of psychologists and professiologists to the possibility of using the twin study method as a tool and model for confirming provisions of the concept of personal and professional specifications. It is assumed that the analysis of personal and behavioral characteristics of members of monozygotic twin pairs confirms the existence of a genetically stable personality structure corresponding to a particular system of professional conditions and requirements of professional activity. As an illustration the author presents the experimental results of the study of personal and behavioral characteristics of monozygotic parted and unparted twins. The author indicates methodological limitations in the dissemination of these findings and the need for comprehensive diagnostics of personnel through comparison, verification, and completion of the obtained experimental data and procedures. Based on the results of theoretical analysis and empirical tests, the author makes the conclusion about the presence of both natural and hereditary bases of professional orientation. The results of the study prove the author's concept of personal and professional specifications of personnel and the need for modeling it in order to improve the quality of psychological selection of the staff and supervision and assistance of employees at an organization.

Keywords: parted twins, dizygotic twin pair, monozygotic twin pair, personality predisposition, personal and professional specification, psychogenetic study, twin studies, unparted twins, twin environment, inside twin similarity

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.4.66457

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.5.19652

Abstract: The article is devoted to increasing safety of the road traffic through implementing preventive psychological diagnostics of the driver's disposition for aggressive (dangerous) driving. The object of the research is the personality inventory aimed at assessing the driver's reliablity as well as whether the inventory can predict the driver's style of driving. The subject of the research is construct validity as a psychometric characteristic of the inventory. It is the characteristic that defines the quality (i.e. accuracy) of studying this or that individual psychological trait. For this reason, the authors have conducted the psychometric research of validity based on comparison of obtained results with inventory indicators which served as the standard (basis) for evaluation. The basic research methods combined diffedrent diagnostic methods (tests) and methods of mathematical and statistical data processing. The following tests and inventories have been used: Californian psychological inventory, Willed self-control inventory (offered by A. Zverkov and E. Eidman), Risk liability inventory (A. Shmelev), John Taylor's personal anxiety inventory, Five-factor questionnaire, Self-assertiveness Strategy Inventory (offered by A. Nikitin and N. Kharlamenkova) and BPAQ questionnaire. Comparitive correlation analysis of the diagnostic scales of the Driver's realiablity inventory with relevant indictors of the aforesaid seven tests has allowed to make a conclusion about the construct validity and good psychometric characteristics of the Inventory. The scientific novelty of the research is casused by the fact that the authors have tested a new innovative method of preventive dianogistics of the driver's disposition towards aggressive (dangeous) driving. Such analysis of personal traits of acting and future drivers allows to assist them with psychological help if necessary, to improve their style of driving and, finally, to increase the safety of road traffic. The results of the research also show that the Inventory can be used not only for drivers but also for internal affairs officers.

Keywords: psychometric characteristics, anxiety, delinquency, validity, anxiety manifestation scale, Road Patrol Service of the Main Directorate for Ro, aggressive driving, dangerous driving, deviation behavior, driver's realibility inventory

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.5.68098

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.5.19954

Abstract: Research and socio-economic conditions allow to determine the actual problem which is a contradiction between the high demand on the labor market within the framework of working professions and undeveloped motivation of graduates for working in their specialty. These contradictions can be resolved by examining the professional orientation of students during their education process based on the introduction of modern psychological technologies. Thus, the purpose of the research was to study a professional orientation development of auto mechanics during their college years. The study was conducted from September 2015 to May 2016 and involved 32 Polytechnical College students aged from 16 to 18 years (the average age is 17.09 ± 0.211). For the purposes of the teaching experiment all the respondents were divided into two groups, experimental group that involved the first-year students majoring in automechanics and the control group consisting of the first-year students studying welding. The authors have also prepared a 20-academic hour program of professional orientation development (10 lessons, each lasting for 2 academic hours). The lessons were given from March to April 2016. The program proved to be efficient. The authors have recorded the statistically important increase in the number of the experimental group's students with the high level of developed professional orientation after the lessons compared to the control group to which the lessons were not given. The program prepared by the authors is more oriented at the development of such components of professional orientation as the motivation, needs, values and the level of reflection.

Keywords: working professions, development, value orientation, attitude to work, motivation, professional success, auto mechanic, professional orientation, training, technical college

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.5.68099

Keywords: working professions, development, value orientation, attitude to work, motivation, professional success, auto mechanic, professional orientation, training, technical college

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.5.19998

Abstract: The study sponsored by the Russian President's grant for state support of young Russian scientists - PhD (MK-7500.2016.6). The article is devoted to the justification of a model of psychological safety of oil and gas shift workers in the Arctic. Industrial safety in the first place depends on the employee, not only on his attitude to the observance of health and safety requirements but also on one's personal traits, his subjective experience and effectiveness of his psychological self-regulation. Thus, the analysis of the employee safe behavior should involve not only industrial and working conditions but also characteristics of one's psychological safety as a potential opportunity to avoid production errors. The study conducted on the oil and gas industry with a shift labour organization in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (shift duration is 30 days). The study involved 70 people aged from 24 to 60 years (the average age is 38.7 ± 1.3). Research methods included: analysis of documentation, monitoring the work process, questionnaires, psycho-physiological and psychological testing, and statistical methods of data analysis. The study has clarified the concept of psychological safety as a mental state of control over a range of external and internal factors of the ergatic system triggering internal personality means to be professionally efficient at the psychophysiological and psychological levels. The authors introduce and empirically support the model of psychological safety that is comprised of the following components: psychophysiological level of the functional status (reduced / optimal); psychological level of the functional state (emergency / economical); the image of an labour object (low undifferentiated risk assessment / highly differentiated risk assessment); the image of a labour subject (highly undifferentiated / moderately differentiated self-assessment); the image of the subject-object and subject-subject relations (neutral / negative / positive).

Keywords: professional efficiency, image of a labor subject, working ability, image of a labor object, functional status, labor regulators, oil and gas companies, safe behavior, shift work, psychological safety

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.5.68100

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.5.14465

Abstract: The dynamics of professional values of personnel in organizations is analyzed. The object of the research was the professional values of different organizations with different forms of ownership and purposes of activity (commercial and non-commercial purposes). The purpose of the research was to determine peculiarities of the dynamics of professional values of employees at an organization. The results of the research prove the author's hypothesis that specialists of different majors have different values. The authenticity of the research results was supported by the good planning of the experiment, adequate choice of reliable and valid methods, sufficient volume and representation of the group of respondents and application of different statistical methods according to the objectives of the research. In her research Khalilullina has used the psychological test called «Values of the Actor of Professional Activity» (offered by Lvov and Shlykova) that describes seven professional areas, each consisting of 64 factors allowing to identify professional values of employees. On the basis of empirical data the average indices have been calculated and analyzed. The results of the research of this group of respondents show that professional values are totally different for the studied areas. While there are differences between professional values, the following general tendency for all respondents can be observed: material values are the most important and communicative values are the least important. There are also the following tendencies for all types of professions: professional values are the most demonstrated and social values are the least demonstrated. These tendencies can be specific to a professional group of specialists. For the common tendencies there are differences in the significance and the fullness of the manifestation of professional values among specialists of different types of professions. The same differences exist in professional fields that have no common tendencies mentioned above. Professional values of specialists of various professions differ depending not only on their professional fields in general but also on individual factors composing each of the areas. This reflects the missing homogeneity of amounts and fullness of the manifestation of professional values within a single professional field. In addition, the low level of satisfaction of the majority of factors in professional activity can have a negative influence on the level of psychological safety of the respondents because their working conditions can conflict with their needs that are the basis of the professional values and motivation. This can lead to destructive psychological changes such as the increased level of anxiety, professional deformation, unclear life orientations and, finally, reduction of the effectiveness of corporate activities. The results of this research can be used: 1) to make recommendations on how to develop or improve the corporate culture of the company; 2) to create a motivational program for the specialists; 3) to develop the personnel policy of the organization; 4) to form working groups consisting of representatives of different cultures; 5) to organize the working process by managers at different levels; 6) to prepare guidelines for the top management; 7) to provide psychological assistance to employees including their adaptation to a new working place.

Keywords: dynamics of professional values, psychological safety of an employee, corporate culture, values management, personal traits of employees, professional values, personal characteristics of employees, communicative competence, motivational sphere of employees, labor satisfaction

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.5.66554

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.5.11754

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.5.65000

Abstract: The article is devoted to social and psychological aspects of the professional culture of designing engineers. The author of the article provides the results of the research of social and psychological aspects of the professional culture of designing engineers and associated value orientations and professional stereotypes of designing engineers working at industrial enterprises. The author also describes the results of evaluating the level of satisfaction of engineers with their professional activity. The analysis of obtained results allows to define the degree of readiness of engineers for adaptation to new social conditions in the age of innovative transformations. The analysis of activities performed by designing engineers working at industrial enterprises has shown that the majority of designing engineers dislike innovations and have a very vague idea about innovation process in general while expressing a positive attitude to creativity in work. The research evidently shows the contradiction between traditional values and stereotypes that slow down the process of adopting new values. The results of the research of social and psychological aspects of the professional culture of engineers show that: there is a certain divergence between value orientations of designing engineers and their views on the need to transform elements of their professional culture in accordance with innovation changes; their professional values are realized only when an engineer seeks new knowledge to cover the gaps in his profession culture but at the same time an engineer tends to ignore associated professional skills and abilities; there is a also a contradiction between value orientations and their need to change their professional culture and the majority of designing engineers do not have the aim to adopt innovations.

Keywords: psychology, professional culture, social and psychological aspects, designing engineers, satisfaction, activity, value orientations, stereotypes, technology, consciousness.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2013.6.62809

Abstract: Shift work in the Far North is quite an extreme activity. The results of the adaptation process of shift workers are developed adaptive strategies influenced by such determinants a negative influence and environmental and personal recourses. Ranking of certain elements of the personal resource such as subjective control, motivation and psychophysiological abilities of workers in different spheres (forestry, diamond and oil industries) shows that this resource is triggered mostly as a response to negative influence of the environment. Different environmental conditions (production organization) also has a significant impact on developing an adaptive strategy of a worker.

Keywords: psychology, shift, resource, strategy, adaptation, labor, core, activity, Wednesday, North.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.6.15640

Abstract: The subject under research is the manipulative tendencies of managers, their management style, means of influence on subordinates and the level of satisfaction of the latter with the psychological cilmate in a group. Special attention is paid to the relation between manipulative tendencies of managers and their management style as well as partricular displays of the manipulative management style and means of influence on subordinates that are usually used by the managers with the manipulative tendencies. The empirical object of the research was the groups of industrial workers. In total, 155 respondents were involved in the research, 20 managers and 135 subordinates. The researchers used the questionnare suvey, comparative analysis and statistical data processing. To define the manipulative tendencies of managers, the researchers used the MAC-4 Inventory (adapted by V. Znakova). To analyze the psychological cilmate, the researchers applied the Social and Psychological Cilmate Inventory offered by A. Lutoshkina. The management style was defined with the help of the inventories developed by L. Ryumshina, the Management Style Inventory and Means of Manipulation Inventory. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the researchers analyze the manipulative management style and means of manipulation used by managers in the process of managing their subordinates. The researchers show the dependence of the management style on whether a manager has manipulative tendencies or not. The researchers also describe general means of manipulation and influence on subordinates that are typical for managers disregarding their management style as well as specific means of manipulation used by managers with the manipulative management style. The researchers also examine the level of satisfaction with the psychological climate in groups of industrial workers managed by managers with different management styles.

Keywords: dialogic style of management, the authoritarian style of management, management style, the manipulation of subordinates, manipulative tendencies, interpersonal manipulation, manipulation, manipulative style of management, means of manipulation, psychological climate

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.6.66640

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.7.15222

Abstract: As the most unfavorable functional (psychophysiological) state of airline pilots, fatigue is being considered from the point of view of the recommended international standards of risk management safety. The authors of the article describe the basic types of fatigue and their typical features with respect to flying. The authors also give the description of the current state of pilot fatigue management for the purpose of ensuring flight safety in civil aviation. They define and describe the methodical approach to the flight safety management based on the guidelines of the International Association of Civil Aviation. The research methods included: industrial psychology, engineering psychology, ergonomics, industrial psychophysiology, health risk assessment, life safety and risk management. The main contribution made by the authors to the development of the topic under research is the justification of the urgent need for the implementation of the mechanisms of the pilot fatique management recommended by the International Association of Civil Aviation. The apparent advantage of this approach is an opportunity to carry out a multi-level safety strategy allowing to manage the risks associated with fatigue regardless of their psychophysiological causes. This creates the prospects for implementing this strategy and providing psychophysiological safety in any sphere of navigation.

Keywords: psychophysiological training of pilots, fatigue, pilot fatigue management, functional state, psychophysiological state, aviation psychophysiology, flight phychophysiology, pilot fatigue, flight safety, aviation ergonomics

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.7.66858

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.7.12323

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.7.65240

Abstract: Adequate physical exercises and physical rehabilitation hold a prominent place in a set of measures aimed at preventing near-sightedness and progressive myopia. Physical exercises make a body healthier and activate functions of a body. Special physical exercises also have a favorable influence on indicators of physical fitness and results of action tests as well as formation of ocular refraction of children. The purpose of the present article is to evaluate the influence of the physical rehabilitation program on the indicators of physical fitness and results of action tests performed by young sportsmen with the low degree myopia. In order to define the level of physical fitness, the researcher used muscular endurance tests set forth by the regulatory and procedural guidelines of All-Russia Scientific Research Institute of Physical Education. To describe the physical condition of young sportsmen, the researcher has used the following tests: 30-meter distance running, shuttle running 3х30, bows front from the sitting position, throwing a 3 kg stuffed ball from behind the neck, 6-minute running and a number of sit-ups per 30 seconds. 140 children aged from 8 to 15 years with the low degree myopia and accommodation spasms participated in the research. The experimental group included 110 children who have been diagnosed the low degree myopia in 44 % of all cases and the accommodation spasm in 56 % of all cases. The control group consisted of 30 children who have been diagnosed the low degree myopia in 46 % of all cases and the accommodation spasm in 54 % of all cases. The series of exercises was added to the general training. Children from the experimental group did exercises aimed at training strength and muscular endurance or other carriage exercises as well as adapted games or rhythmic gymnastics. By analyzing the dynamics of the indicators of physical fitness and results of action tests performed by the children with the low degree myopia, it can be assumed that the program had a positive influence on their health, in particular, increased functional capabilities of respiratory and circulatory organs as well as raised capacities for self-adaptation of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

Keywords: pedagogy, physical rehabilitation, myopia, young sportsmen, action tests, physical fitness (development), exercises, correction, compensation, development.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.9.21515

Abstract: In their research the authors focus on the regional aspect of personal-professional specification. They offer a general definition of the term 'regional specification' that reflects ethno-cultural, geographical and landscape peculiarities of corporate staff at the concrete level as some kind of an optimal structure of personal-professional qualities allowing an employee to perform his or her duties and to correspond to functional requirements of her or her profession. The authors analyze reginal specification as general and special qualities in verbal and cogitative, emotional-volitional, communicative and motivational spheres that constitute professional predictor modules. There are differences observed both in structures of personal qualities and systems of professional requirements. The authors also provide empirical data reflecting various forms of personal-professional specification under regional conditions. Specific regional features are proved through statistical procedures and criteria. The authors also apply procedures for defining statistically significant differences between groups in order to describe the main psychological indicators of the personnel in companies under research. By using the correlation analysis the authors also evaluate the relationship between experimental groups. As a result, the authors give the scientific and experimental substantiation of the term 'regional specifrication' that reflect ethno-cultural, geographical and landscape peculiarities of the staff. The authors clarify the structure of personal-professional qualities contributing to an efficient performance of labor functions in accordance with professional requirements in a particular region. They also prove and explain differences both in structures of personal qualities and systems of professional requirements discovered in the course of drawing mental graphs.The authors also view regional specification as a system of general and special qualities of the personnel in verbal and cogitative, emotional-volitional, communicative and motivational spheres that constitute professional predictor modules.

Keywords: boundaries of regional specifications, geographical features, ethno-cultural differences of regions, mental graph, job analysis, regional specification, personal-professional specification, concrete level of analysis, structure of professionally significant qualities, alteration of boundaries of specifications

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.9.68587

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2013.8.9154

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2013.8.63117

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of training counseling psychologists and describes aims and targets of their education. The author of the article analyzes stages and conditions of psycholog8ical education and describes Russian and foreign approaches to teaching counseling psychology. From the point of view of the general science, psychological assistance means the sphere and form of activity aimed at helping a person or a community to solve diverse problems created as a result of one’s life in a society. Psychological assistance is emotional, axiological and existential support of a person or a community in difficult situations arising in the course of their personal or social being. Professional identity of a psychologist reduces the distance between the ‘Functional Self’ and ‘Existential Self’, decreases anxiety and increases one’s personal potentials and becomes a condition and a stimulus for further personal growth and identity formation. One’s cognition defines his existential and social views. The ‘technological’ level of the described model determines the personal level and the latter returns one’s personal ‘Self’ to the role image of profession. Being absorbed in professional issues and methods, a psychological applies these or those conceptions, methods (technics) to himself and, in the course of this professional and personal improvement, returns from his ‘Existential Self’ to ‘Functional Self’ and achieves the desired professional and personal identity.

Keywords: pedagogy, education, program, training, activity, counseling, approach, teaching, assistance, person.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.10.21901

Abstract: Recent researches have demonstrated that professional activity favours personal self-fulfilment and gives the sense of one's independence and self-esteem. Hoewver, professional activity also reduces the time that a woman has left for her family fulfilment which may lead to a so-called 'gender overload', tension and intrapersonal conflict. In this article Kulagina raises a question about an intrapersonal role conflict experienced by employed women. The author describes types and reasons of intrapersonal conflicts that may be experienced by women and provides the results of the empirical research that demonstrate the influence of the intrapersonal role conflict experienced by employed women on their work motivation and satisfaction with different sides of professional activity. Employed women of different ages participated in the research. The total number of participants was 160 people. The theoretical basis of the research includes concepts of gender practices. In order to achieve the research objective, the author has used the following research methods: Employed Women's Role Conflict Inventory (by E. Korneeva), 'Professional Activity Motivation Questionnaire (by K. Zemfir adapted by A. Rean), Integral Satisfaction with Work (by N. Fetiskina, V. Kozlov, and G. Manuylov). The author has also used Student's t-test to carry out mathematical-statistical processing of data. Using the methods of mathematical statistics, the author has discovered that young married women with children have the moderate intensity level of the intrapersonal conflict. They experience a harder conflict compared to mature married women with children who have demonstrated a low intensity level of the gender conflict.

Keywords: existential gender conflict, work motivation, professional roles, family roles, role expectations, role conflict, personal disadaptation, fear-of-success conflict, gender stereotypes, intrapersonal conflict

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.10.68616

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.11.22442

Abstract: The subject of this research is the methods and results of psychological studies of the flight work. The object of the research is the psychological assistance of aircraft. The authors of the article focuses on such aspects of the topic as the psychological aspects of decision-making during flight operations, methodological and theoretical basis of psychological research in aviation, psychological characteristics of flight activity of modern aircraft, technical means of formation of professionally important qualities of the pilot. Particular attention is paid to the definition of the importance of psychological studies of the flight security in state aviation. The research methodology is based on the systems approach and integrates the methods of work psychology, engineering psychology, ergonomics and aviation medicine. The main conclusion of the research is the statement that the records of the results of psychological research in the design of aircraft and flight crew training is an essential component of ensuring safety and health protection of the aircrew system. Special contribution of the authors is that they have summarized the results of psychological studies of the flight of labor with emphasis on their application at the present stage of aviation development.

Keywords: psychophysiological reliability pilot, human factor, aviation ergonomics, aviation engineering psychology, psychological features of activity, aviation psychology, labor psychology flight, psychological research, professional qualities, psychological training pilot

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.11.68634

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.9.16276

Abstract: One of most topical issues in practical psychology now is training of specialists and orientation of practical psychology at psychotherapeutic (curative) activity and medical terms. The first problem is that specialists in the field of psychological services get education both at higher educational establishments and educational centers of different psychological schools and branches of psychology. This creates a variety of professions in this area, the terms of educating are fundamentally different. The authors of the present article suggest to train specialists of numerous psychological schools and directions and to conduct their practical training for work in different spheres of human activity only by higher education establishments. The second problem of practical psychology is the medical terminology and the absence of clear theoretical definitions of professional activity of medics related to the problems of mental health and psychology. The authors of the article explain theoretical grounds for fundamental distinctions of activity of specialists in practical psychology and medical specialities and demonstrate that practical psychology is an obviously humanitarian profession. The article contains a brief historical review of the basic directions of practical psychology and the current situation in this sphere. The authors also provide an analytical review of existing psychological services and associated professions in Russia and Ukraine including services mentioned in the Classifications of Professions for these two countries and point out legislative contradictions from the point of view of existing problems. The methodology of the research involves the development of the basic approaches to training of personnel in the field of psychological services and theoretical substantiation of the principal differences between psychological activity and medical activity associated with mental health based on the analysis of scientific sources. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the authors have provided an analytical review of existing professions in the sphere of psychological services in Russia and Ukraine including professions included in the Classifications of Professions for these countries. The authors also give the theoretical justification for the fact that psychologist is a humanitarian profession that does not involve a medical world view and curative manipulations and therefore should not use medical terminology. Disregarding his major, the main objective of a practical psychologist is to encourage the development of personality and mental processes in order to form a completely new Personality capable of solving professional and personal problems and taking care of his health including mental health. The article can be of interest to a wide range of specialists in the field of psychological services, such as researchers, practical psychologists and state officials of the education system.

Keywords: psychology, practical psychology, psychotherapy, training of personals, interpretation of professions, classifier of professions, pressing questions, society, medicine, problems

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.9.67113

Keywords: problems, topical questions, psychology, practical psychology, psychotherapy, training of personnel, classification of professions, definition of professions, society, medicine

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.10.12452

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.10.65659

Abstract: The article focuses on the problems of personal professional identification. The author of the article offers a general definition of ‘personal professional identification’ as an optimal structure (list) of personal professional qualities that allow an individual to be efficient in his work, i.e. to answer the main functional requirements of his profession. The author also analyzes closely associated terms such as ‘personal reliability’, ‘professional reliability’, ‘professional aptitude of an individual’ and ‘personal professional peculiarities’. The author also provides empiric data of personal professional identification in civil service. Theoretical concepts have been proved by the empiric data obtained though comparative analysis of personal professional qualities of workers of different majors. The analysis also involved statistical procedures of correlation analysis and methods of statistical inference. Psychological indicators were obtained by the means of objective, subjective and projective test methods. ‘Personal professional identification’ is a new term introduced into the sphere of psychological research as a structure of signs of a professional psychological phenomenon allowing to distinguish different types of personality versus professions. The concept of personal professional identification also involves the creation of professional psychological models within the framework of practical assessment of human resources for the purpose of career guidance, recruitment and support of workers in the process of their career and personal professional development.

Keywords: personal professional identification, personal reliability, professional reliability, professional aptitude, personal professional peculiarities, structure of professionally important qualities, dynamics of personal professional identification, model of a worker, professional psychological model, regression of personal qualities.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.12.17548

Abstract: The article is devoted to numerous connections between medicine and psychology. Medicine has long been considered to be the sphere in which psychology gained a very broad practical implementation. In his research Paleev describes the three factors that are important for studying diseases. Until recently genetic heredity seemed to play the prevailing role in the origin of diseases. The human genome mapping offer better opportunities for healing people and avoiding genetic predisposition to particular diseases. However, in his article Paleev demonstrates that we should not overemphasize the role of the genetic factor. Quite often diseases have the physiological basis. The role of the psychological factor is also enormous. So called psychogenic diseases are a proof of that. These diseases are mostly studied by psychiatry. In this regard, the researcher notes that analysis of anamnesis (disease history) involves consideration of psychologically important events that took place in a patient's life. Psychology helps an individual to structure his life experience and to explain it to the surrounding world. In his research Paleev focuses on the history of medical practice and employs materials of medical psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He bases his research on the fundamental provisions of modern humanities. Appealing to various kinds of psychotherapy, the author of the article reasons about the social status of psychotherapy. He also draws a distinction between psychiatry and psychoanalysis and emphasizes the difference between the fates of these sciences in our country. Special attention is paid to peculiarities of psychosomatic diseases. Touching upon the unity between body and soul, the author of the article also stresses out the fact that body and soul are inseparable elements of human personality. In his article Paleev also raises the question about the emerging role of psychotherapy in medical practice.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2015.12.67382

Keywords: psychotherapy, psychosomatic medicine, human genome, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, medical psychology, psychology, disease, body, mind

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.12.13460

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2014.12.65937

Abstract: The topic under review of the present research article is the processes of intermodal synthesis in a professional activity of a musician. During their professional training, musicians acquire a wide range of difficult and fine psychological skills which the author of the article considers to be the main professional resources in music performance. These skills include, first of all, intermodal connections, such as those between sight and motion, hearing and motion, and sight and hearing. Based on the author of the article, the level of the development of these skills has a direct influence on success and creativity of a musician. Within the framework of research, the main resources shall mean a sophisticated system of the musician’s professional reflection as well as the process of ideomotion and intermodal synthesis as the basic mechanisms of creating the comprehensive experience of a musician and an image of a music piece thereupon. The present research is based on the methodology of the systems approach because the given methodology is rather universal and allows to analyze complex fields and disciplines. When studying the phenomena and objective laws of music performance, Fedorova-Galbershtam appeals to a complex multi-level and multi-component activity structure. The author has also used the methodological principle of holism. When talking about polymodality and synesthesiability of musical consciousness, Fedorova-Galbershtam is based on the idea of the initial integrity of the world image in the human mind. The novelty of the present article is in the author’s statements about intermodal synthesis as the basic psychological resource in music performance. The researcher offers a new approach to viewing a sophisticated system of the musician’s professional reflection in terms intermodal connections and ideomotor training. In the course of the research Fedorova- Galbershtam makes a conclusion about the essential role of audiomotor connections and productive hearing (acoustic) representations of the musician. The researcher also shows the relation between the level of the development of ideomotor skills, operational level of professional reflection and possibilities of creating an integral image of a music piece.