Influence psychological competence on professional self-development of future specialists

The article analyzes the problem of psychological competence and its influence on professional self-development of future professionals. Psychological competence is seen as an important characteristic of experts of socionomic profile, suggesting the presence of psychological knowledge and being capable to organize interpersonal interactions in practice, contributing to the solution of professional problems and being one of the conditions of personal and professional self-development. Personal and professional self-development are analyzed from the point of a synergistic approach as an integral self-developing system, that creates a need for self-change and personal growth and exercising self-control in the behavior and activities oriented to achieving personally and professionally meaningful goals. The results of experimental research of psychological competence and professional self-development of students are given. With the use of psycho-diagnostic research the author reveals levels of self-development, psychological competence, self-efficacy, self-regulation and the level of meaningfulness of life of students. Basing on these results the author makes conclusions about the relationship of professional self-development of future professionals and their level of psychological competence. It was found that psychological competence is the cognitive and instrumental basis of personal and professional self-development of specialists in socionomic profile, providing reflexive and conative resources of self-transformation and self-improvement.