Developing competitive readiness through psychological education

One of the tasks of modern education is to prepare future specialists for competition. At the same time, the empathy and humanistic values of representatives of socionomic professions make them relatively more vulnerable to the stress of competition, including the need to regularly maintain their competitive ability. Objective: to study students’ readiness to compete and to develop psychological means of its development. Methods: “The level of competitiveness”, “The level of ability to self-learning and self-education” (V.I. Andreev); correlation analysis. Sample : 46 students studying socionomic professions. Results: The prevalence of students’ average level of competitiveness and ability to self-education is revealed. A set of psychological education measures is developed, contributing to the formation of adequate ideas about competition, about the qualities that hinder self-education and competitiveness, the formation of skills of organization of developmental leisure and self-regulation in stressful situations, the development of productive solutions and the implementation of competitive interaction. Available methods are used, recommended for the activities of the psychological service and in the teaching of special courses in psychology.