Motivation for choosing a clinical psychologist career

Objective: to determine the dominant motives for choosing a profession “clinical psychology”. Material and methods. The methodology of R. V. Ovcharova was applied to determine the motives for choosing the profession of a clinical psychologist. The opinion of students in the specialty “Clinical Psychology” was also studied with the help of a specially designed author’s questionnaire (19 questions), which allowed to determine significant motivation factors in choosing a profession students ( n =126). Regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between gender, the presence of relatives - medical workers and motivation factors.