Substantive and Dynamic Characteristics of Professional Value Orientations in Cadets of the Educational Organizations of the Federal Penal Service of Russia

Abstract

The paper features the structure and dynamics of professional value formation in cadets of the institution of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. The study was based on the author's questionnaire "Diagnostics of professional and valuable orientations of the personality" that tests one’s internalization and the content of professional value orientations. It was a longitudinal statistical psychodiagnostics of 180 future employees of various penitentiary organizations. The research demonstrated the dynamics of qualitative changes of professional value orientations. At the initial stage of vocational education, relations, specific knowledge and a need for achievement appeared to be the most important characteristics of the official professional activity. For the third-year cadets, these characteristics included personal qualities necessary for professional performance. Senior students gave preference to personal and professional qualities and skills. The results can be used in educational and social work of military institutions and counseling.

Keywords

• vocational education
• staff of the penal correction system
• students
• professional values
• personal traits
• empirical research