THE ROLE OF ADDITIONAL EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF YOUTH
Authors: S.B. Pashkin , N.B. Lisovskaia 
Published: December 2024

Formation of professional self-awareness of future specialists in the process of their educational activity is one of the leading problems of modern psychological science. In modern Russia, the problem of formation of professional self-awareness of youth, organization of psychological and pedagogical conditions of its formation has become relevant in connection with the changed socio-economic conditions that arose in connection with the process of formation of a new civil society, modernization in the field of education, including professional, as well as with a significant need to transform the attitude of the subject of labor to his professional activity. The purpose of the study was to study the influence of additional education on the formation of professional self-awareness of youth. The study involved 130 students of state educational institutions of primary and secondary vocational education under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Education of St. Petersburg, included in the system of additional education, aged 17 to 22 years (including 15 boys and 15 girls), and 130 students of state educational institutions of primary and secondary vocational education under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Education of St. Petersburg, not included in the system of additional education, aged 17 to 22 years (including 15 boys and 15 girls). The following methods were used in the study: "Questionnaire for determining the level of professional orientation of students" (UPN) by T.D. Dubovitskaya; Methodology for the study of self-attitude (MIS) by S.R. Panteleev; Questionnaire "Stylish self-regulation of human behavior" by V.I. Morosanova, E.M. Konoz; Methodology for diagnosing socio-psychological attitudes of the individual in the motivational-needs sphere by O.F. Potemkina; Self-actualization test by E. Shostrom adapted by L. Ya. Gozman, M. V. Kroz, M. V. Latyn; “Personal Differential” (PD) method (version adapted at the Bekhterev Research Institute). To process the obtained data, methods of quantitative and qualitative data analysis were used (descriptive statistics methods, comparative analysis (Student’s t-test)). Before the comparative analysis, the empirical distribution was checked for normality using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical normality test (with Liljefors correction). Statistical data processing was performed using the SPSS 23.0 Statistics 28.0.1 software package. The study found that students included in the system of additional education have a better developed cognitive component of professional self-awareness, realized in self-knowledge, an emotional component expressed in self-understanding as an evaluative and emotional attitude towards oneself, self-respect and self-acceptance, an operational component of professional self-awareness, as well as a motivational and target component realized in the desire for self-actualization. The results obtained allow us to conclude that additional education plays a positive role in developing professional self-awareness of young people. The system of additional education forms professional self-awareness, a sense of self-worth, and promotes the disclosure of personal and leadership potential, which will contribute to successful career building.