SPECIAL ASPECTS OF INTENSITY OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION COMPONENTS OF THE STUDENTS OF VARIOUS SPECIALTIES

Professional training should create the conditions for the disclosure of the student’s individuality opportunities. Self-actualization is regarded as one of the most important resources that should intensify in the training of students. Specific features of vocational training can take into account different components of self-actualization. An empirical study of self-actualization profiles of students in various educational programs has involved 50 student-athletes and 45 psychology students. It has been found that for the total sample of subjects the most developed parts are the following components: “knowledge about the human nature”, “capacity for spontaneity”, “creativity”, a high level of “self-esteem” and the fact that self-actualization does not depend on gender characteristics. Self-actualization profiles of psychology students and student-athletes have the similar pattern, and significant difference between the profile factors has not been identified. At the same time, it has been found that student-athletes have a higher factor of creativity, self-acceptance and independence in their actions. Psychology students, on the contrary, have more developed such factors as spontaneity, sensitivity, and self-esteem. The research has revealed a problematic area of psychology students’ self-actualization: high self-esteem and lack of self-acceptance can provoke emotional burnout and dissatisfaction with themselves and their profession. Based on these results, the author can conclude that the development of self-actualization as an integral characteristic requires the development of spontaneity, creativity, and temporal competence; it is important for psychology students to increase confidence factors to themselves and the world, greater flexibility in behavior; students-athletes should expand the boundaries of self-esteem. The instrument of the components of students’ self-actualization can become coping behavior. Reducing in the use of “escape-avoidance” coping and increase in “planning of the problem solution” and “creativity” will contribute to the development of self-esteem and reliance on their own values.