Technologies of Responsibility Development in Vocational Training

Abstract

Successful fulfilment of professional tasks depends not only on the knowledge and skills of the
individual but also on the individual-psychological qualities of the character that determine
professional identification. Responsibility is a marker of professional identification. Therefore, an
important task of higher education is the development of a responsible attitude to work, which is the
basis of students’ psychological readiness for the future profession. The psychological features of
technologies for developing responsibility for future professional activities during studies at a higher
education institution are insufficiently studied. The research aims to study the psychological features
of the responsibility development for future professional activity.
The obtained empirical results show that: in the process of vocational training, the locus of control
towards the internality increases; an increase in indicators of such psychological qualities of a
person as self-esteem, positive attitude, mobilization of one's potential, self-knowledge, self-education
and self-affirmation accompanies an increase of responsibility indicators; in situations familiar to
themselves, the respondents remain efficient, self-confident, and show the ability to personal control;
in situations of confrontation with difficulties, self-confidence decreases, and the tendency to obey
environmental influences increases. The results of the correlation analysis show that if a person is
responsible for events in his/her life, is consistent and persistent in achieving results, then the result of
his/her activity also grows, such people are more successful in their professional activities.
Therefore, for the development of responsibility, the process of professional training must apply the
technologies of psychological qualities development that determine the formation of the internality of
the individual. Namely, these qualities are self-esteem, positive attitude towards achievement of
results, high estimation of the potential, mobility. The data obtained in the study should be taken into
account in the process of psychological support of vocational training in a higher education
institution. Prospects for further development of the problem of professional responsibility
development may be the issue of studying gender psychological characteristics.