The Relationship of Character Accentuations and Professional Self-Determination of Adolescents

Abstract

A study was conducted to identify high-risk groups among adolescents, with a level of accentuations, characterized by a high probability of adaptive disorders in the professional sphere, which contribute to the development or intensification of intrapsychic conflict, frustration and emotional tension, mental stress. The questionnaires of K. Leonhard and N. Shmishek “Character Accentuationsˮ, “Orientationˮ (I. L. Solomin) and “Professional Readinessˮ by A. P. Chernyakovskaya. The relationship between the accentuations of the character of adolescents and their professional self-determination was determined using a correlation analysis – the r-Spearman criterion was used. Adolescents were tested, students of grades 10 and 11 in the amount of 60 people aged 15–17 years (including 22 boys and 38 girls). It is concluded that adolescents with dysthymic, anxious-fearful, exalted, affective-labile and stuck character accentuations are more vulnerable in the context of professional self-determination, more successful adolescents with hyperthymic, pedantic, demonstrative, excitable and emotive character accentuations.