Communicative Competence as a Component of the Professional Development of Psychology Students

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https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/12.3/222

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communicative competence, communicative knowledge, communicative abilities, psychology students, professional development, professional training, professional motivation, professional orientation

Abstract

The paper analyzes the issue of communicative competence as an element of the professional development of students studying psychology. It is established that in order to become a professional psychologist, a person should possess a number of essential psychological skills, such as communicative competence realized in the possession of verbal and nonverbal means of communication, ability to initiate and maintain contact. Based on this, the aim of the article was to conduct an empirical study on the communicative competence features as a component of the professional development of upcoming psychologists. A set of psychodiagnostic methods was selected, which helped to study the main parameters of communicative competence, features of professional orientation and motivation of future professional activity. The obtained results were subjected to quantitative and qualitative analysis. The sample included 72 Bachelor’s degree psychology students studying at Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University. The research consisted of two stages. The first stage incorporated the assessment of communicative competence, based on which the sample of subjects was divided into 3 subgroups according to their level of communicative competence development. The second stage analyzed the features of professional motivation and attitude to one’s own professional development of psychology students with different levels of communicative competence development. The results demonstrate that students with a high level of communicative competence in comparison with students with medium and low levels of communicative competence in the structure of professional motivation are dominated by intrinsic motivation, which indicates that for such students their future profession itself is very important. Moreover, these students have a clear idea of their future professional activity, are more professionally oriented, which will contribute to their successful professional development.

 

Author Biographies

Olga Batsylyeva, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

D.Sc. in Psychology, professor, professor of Department of Psychology of the Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Irina Puz, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

PhD in Psychology, associate professor, associate professor of Department of Psychology of the Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Volodymir Astakhov, Donetsk National Medical University, Kramatorsk, Ukraine

MD, Professor, professor of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Head of scientific laboratory of reproductive sphere, prenatal and perinatal psychology of the Donetsk National Medical University, Kramatorsk, Ukraine, astvlad7@gmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0001-9492-9379

Svitlana Yalanska, National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Poltava, Ukraine

D.Sc. in Psychology, professor, Head of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of the National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Poltava, Ukraine

Nina Аtamanchuk, National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Poltava, Ukraine

PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of the National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Poltava, Ukraine

Nataliia Saiko, National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Poltava, Ukraine

D.Sc. in Pedagogy, Associate Professor Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of the National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic», Poltava, Ukraine

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2021-08-23

How to Cite

Batsylyeva, O. ., Puz, I., Astakhov, V. ., Yalanska, S., Аtamanchuk N. ., & Saiko, N. . (2021). Communicative Competence as a Component of the Professional Development of Psychology Students. BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 12(3), 89-104. https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/12.3/222

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