Research Objective: the article discusses the mutual influence of professional self-realization and the psychological well-being of specialists of caring professions. Methodology: correlation and comparative analysis in different professional groups of specialists. The study involved 465 volunteers with work experience of 3 to 40 years: teachers, doctors, medical personnel, psychologists of state and private enterprises. Several standardized self-reports were used to collect data: Ryff's Scales of Psychological Well-being, Professional Burnout Questionnaire, Kokun's Professional Self-Fulfilment Questionnaire, Gura's Workplace Satisfaction Self-assessment Survey, Tkalych's Work-Life Balance additional scale. The use of the open questions allowed clarifying some phenomenological manifestations of professional self-realization among specialists of caring professions, as well as to clarifying the external and internal determinants of self-realization. The authors tested the hypotheses about the influence of several factors on the level of psychological well-being: belonging to a certain professional group, the degree of self-realization, as well as age, gender, and length of service. The results of the study present the structure of well-being and features of self-realization in different professional groups. We proved that professional self-realization is a significant factor in the formation of individual components of psychological well-being: self-acceptance and competence. However, in some cases, high scores for professional self-realization may be associated with burnout and the desire to leave the job. The conclusions contain recommendations on organizational agency and direct psychological interventions that ensure the psychological well-being of specialists of caring professions.

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In the course of empirical research, a connection was established between the psychological characteristics of employees (social-psychological attitudes, job satisfaction and life satisfaction) and their assessment of the role of money in their lives. There is a positive statistically significant relationship between such social-psychological attitudes of company staff as the focus on “result”, “selfishness”, “freedom”, “power”, “work” and their assessment of the role of money in life (as the degree of such social and psychological attitudes increases, the staff's positive attitude to the role of money in life is growing). At the same time, the most complete assessment of the role of money (positive assessment on most indicators) in the lives of staff is provided by such social and psychological attitudes as “power orientation” and “work orientation”. In addition, a negative statistically significant relationship was found between such attitudes as focus on “process”, “altruism”, “money” and assessment of the role of money (as the degree of such attitudes increases, a positive attitude towards the role of money in life is reduced on most indicators). There is also a statistically significant relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction of the staff and their assessment of the role of money. It was found that the assessment of life satisfaction of the staff contributes to a more complete and holistic assessment of the role of money in their lives, compared with job satisfaction, and provides a more “collectivist” profile for assessing the role of money. It is concluded that the use of established patterns is appropriate in the implementation of psychological counselling of company staff on this issue, as well as in the development of monetary policy of organisations.

Брюховецька Олександра Вікторівна, доктор психологічних наук, професор, професор кафедри психології та особистісного розвитку Навчально-наукового інституту менеджменту та психології ДЗВО «Університет менеджменту освіти».

Брюховецька Олександра Вікторівна, доктор психологічних наук, доцент, професор кафедри психології та особистісного розвитку Навчально-наукового інституту менеджменту та психології ДЗВО «Університет менеджменту освіти».