PROFESSIONALLY VALUABLE ORIENTATIONS OF STUDENT YOUTH ON THE EXAMPLE OF INVESTIGATION OF PRIORITIES IN THE STRUCTURE OF TERMINAL AND INSTRUMENTAL LIFE VALUES OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of professional-value orientations of student youth, their place in the structure of students' life values. Modern society is characterized by high social dynamics, social and economic demands on the market of specialists are of a volatile nature. Professionally valuable orientations, understood by the author as an integrative personal structure that determines the professional consciousness of a specialist, characterizing his attitude to the profession, reflecting the content side of the personality's orientation to the values of professional activity, contribute to the effectiveness of the future specialist's adaptation to the processes of entering the profession and professional self-actualization as a whole. The attitude of young people to education is part of the vocational-value sphere, since education is an important component of mastering professional knowledge, the basis of early professionalization. Values of education and profession can be attributed to both instrumental and terminal values. Professional values, realized as priority terminal, contribute to the effectiveness of professional self-realization of the individual. Studies of the nature of professional orientations and values of students, in the author's opinion, can become the basis for predicting the success of socialization in the professional sphere.