Types of internal group reference in the educational university environment and their characteristics

One of the key functions of the professional educational environment of the university is to satisfy the need for social orientation of each member of the educational and professional community (group, course, creative association). The person who is integrated into the new social conditions is faced with the task of forming ideas about the profession, about the image of a professional, about a model for mastering professional competencies. In this regard, the social environment and the nature of relations in it are of great importance. The carrier of social environment determinants is a social group that has a system of values, standards of behavior, attitudes that will not be equally significant for each member of the group - group reference characteristics are refracted through the prism of personal choice, the experience of each member of the group, who has mastered patterns of behavior and interaction. Each social group has a certain degree of reference. The article analyzes the types of intragroup reference based on a combination of indicators of group cohesion and the type of interpersonal behavior, predicts the dynamics of the development of relations in a group with one or another type of reference and describes the effect of each type on the effectiveness of educational and professional activities.