Readiness to Professional Self-Determination of Orphaned Adolescents in the Context of their Social Situation of Development

Discusses personal and socially significant problem of professional self-determination in the context of the social situation of development self-defining personality. Structural components of the social situation of development of professional self-defining of personality: objective (social context) and subjective (psychological readiness to professional self-determination). Emphasized the importance of psychological readiness (cognitive, activity, motivational and personal) for successful professional self-determination and its particular relevance for adolescents with sharpened social situations of development. The results of empirical research of psychological readiness to professional self-determination 43 adolescents-orphans, living in the Volga secondary boarding school for children-orphans and children left without parental care in the Republic of Mari El. With the help of specially selected complex of diagnostic methodologies for various components of psychological readiness to professional self-determination, it was found that for adolescent orphans may lack cognitive, activity, motivational and personal readiness. Differences with the comparison group (73 teenager placed with families) are statistically significant. The obtained data can serve as a basis for concept development and special technologies of psychological and pedagogical support of professional self-determination of adolescents-orphans.

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