Abstract
Cognitive style and self-regulation are the personality characteristics that affect human activity determining both the level of necessary expenses and the ability to distribute them. Such role of these characteristics is caused by the fact that the cognitive style determines individual peculiarities in the information perception and processing. Self-regulation also reflects the ability to set goals, plan the ways of their achievement, and adjust one’s activity in accordance with the external (stable and changing) conditions, the visions of which are formed by means of the received information.
The paper presents the results of the study of the interrelation between two parameters of cognitive styles and self-regulation components carried out in order to identify the feasibility of forecasting the productivity of vocational and educational activity of the students.
The author determined that the prevalence of certain cognitive style parameters correlated with the certain parameters of self-regulation and creativity (as the professionally important quality). At the same time, the average rates of these parameters cause the one-way perception of the information, the difficulties in the production and development of new ideas and their implementation through the setting of specific goals of the activity. Thus, among the factors limiting the creativity, can be considered the following ones: the need for external control and the inability to distribute own forces independently, the narrow sphere of interests and ignoring the information that is beyond this sphere, the inability to predict the consequences of their actions, the small emotional repertoire and the predominance of logical reasoning. Besides that, the integrity of the information perception is displayed in the terms of self-regulation, and namely in the deficient planning, development of the scheme of actions and following it. The one-way perception causes the inaccurate evaluation of yourself and the opportunities of the situation.