The shaping of a “mediator’s image” based on the analysis of motives and attitudes towards the choice of profession of persons that study and have already finished a training program for professional mediators.

Abstract

The relevance and novelty of the work lies in the fact that now more and more often one can hear "mediation" and "mediator" from the mouths of lawyers, teachers, advocates, psychologists, but few people really understand the purpose of this term and the procedure itself. The purpose of this study is to shape an “image of a mediator” based on the analysis of motives and attitudes towards the choice of profession of per-sons that study and have already finished a training program for professional mediators. The article presents the following tasks: theoretical and analytical review of literary sources, and a sociological survey. The study shows the desire to learn to understand oneself and others, as well as attitude dynamics that determine the choice of professional activity, expressed in a change in value orientations during training as a professional mediator in an appropriate professional development program. The study found that mediators themselves do not pay due attention to such an important characteristic as competence, which can significantly affect the work of a mediator and the development of mediation. The survey participants were 25 female and male persons, of which 15 were women and 10 men, 25 to 50 years old, engaged in various activities, with different social status.