Peculiarities of Professional Self-Attitude Formation at Future Social Workers During Their University Training

Abstract

The article presents the results of the empirical study on future social workers' professional selfattitudes during their studying at university. The essence of the "future social workers' professional self-attitudes" phenomenon is presented, which is shown in their experiences regarding to their own professionally important qualities and competences. We determined the positive but insufficient dynamics of the professional self-attitude development at future social workers-"bachelor" degree students of the first-fourth academic years during their professional training at university. There are large statistically significant increase of the number of students with high professional self-attitudes, statistically significant decrease of the number of students with average professional self-attitudes and insignificant decrease of the number of with low professional self-attitudes from the first to the fourth academic year. The obtained results are important for elaboration of effective psychological support for future social workers' professional "Self-concept" development, in general, and their professional self-attitude, in particular, during their professional training.