PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTION

Abstract

The article presents an empirical study of the relationship between professional identity and communication skills of university students. The authors examine the definition of “professional identity”. Professional identity is a psychological systemic formation, defining aspects of self-consciousness, where the relationship between a person and himself as a specialist and as a member of the professional community is defined. Professional identity has social and individual components, focused on the meanings of the profession: social – for society and individual – for the subject-professional. The author concludes that the complex of methods, aimed at revealing the relationship between the communicative abilities of the students of higher educational establishment and the professional community, has been conducted.