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Clinical Psychology and Special Education
2025. Vol. 14, no. 3, 31–41
doi:10.17759/cpse.2025140303
ISSN: 2304-0394 (online)

Students' readiness for professional activity: psychometric characteristics and comparative analysis

 
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Abstract

Objective. The article examines the readiness of first- and fourth-year students for professional activity based on the interrelation of such professional personal qualities as academic motives, semantic proactive attitude to the future, subjective happiness, psychological reasonableness. Materials and methods. The empirical study was conducted in 2023 on a sample of students (N = 120) from 17 to 25 years old (M = 20.2; SD = 1.88), among whom 92.5% were female and 7.5% male, through an anonymous online questionnaire. The respondents’ data were evaluated using the methods “Academic Motivation Scale”, “Proactive attitudes”, “Life Satisfaction Scale”, “Subjective Happiness Scale”, “Psychological Reasonableness Scale”. Results. Statistical analysis of the results showed close direct links between the values of internal motivation (cognition, achievement, self-development), moderate direct links of internal motivation with a semantic proactive attitude to the future and weak direct links with subjective happiness. Intergroup comparisons revealed statistically significant differences in two indicators of psychological reasonableness related to the benefits of discussing experiences with others and openness to change, even if they involve risk. The readiness for professional activity of students is characterized by internal motives, a semantic proactive attitude towards the future, depending on the internal motives of achievement, and the expression of psychological reasonableness in fourth-year students.

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Keywords: : readiness for professional activity, internal motivation, external motivation, proactive coping behavior, psychological mindedness, subjective well-being

Journal rubric: Empirical Research

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpse.2025140303

Received 06.05.2024

Revised 23.04.2025

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For citation: Sunko, T.Y., Grishel, P.V. (2025). Students' readiness for professional activity: psychometric characteristics and comparative analysis. Clinical Psychology and Special Education, 14(3), 31–41. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/cpse.2025140303

© Sunko T.Y., Grishel P.V., 2025

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Tatyana Y. Sunko, Candidate of Science (Education), Associate Professor of the Chair of Special (Defectological) Education of the Faculty of Clinical and Special Psychology, Moscow State University of psychology and education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9848-7977, e-mail: tasunko@yandex.ru

Pavel V. Grishel, Lecturer at the Department of Special Psychology and Rehabilitation, Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9671-4635, e-mail: grishelpv@mgppu.ru

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All authors participated in the discussion of the results and approved the final text of the manuscript.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Written informed consent for participation in this study was obtained from the participants.

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