Khashchenko T.G. Developing the Entrepreneurial Orientation of Personality in the Process of Professional Development at a University: Features of Psychological Support

Abstract: The subject of the research is features of psychological support of developing the entrepreneurial orientation in the process of professional development at a University. For this purpose, the author of the article analyzes structural components of the entrepreneurial orientation as a systemic personality construct which is the internal motivational basis of entrepreneurial activity manifested not only in choosing the business option of a professional career but also in consequences of this activity for the surrounding world (social, moral, legal, environmental, etc.). Special attention is paid to psychological mechanisms of developing the entrepreneurial orientation of personality in the process of professional development which should be considered in terms of psychological support. The methodological basis of research includes interdisciplinary approaches (L. Zhuravlev, T. D. Martsinkovskaya), systems approach (V. A. Barabanshchikov, B. F. Lomov, V. D. Shadrikov), psychosocial approach (K. A. Abulkhanova, M. I. Volovikova), ecopsychological approach (V. I. Panov), systems personality-developing approach (L. M. Mitina), and contextual approach (A. A. Verbitsky). In the course of this research the author has used both theoretical and empirical methods (including formative experiment), statistical treatment and analysis of the results (Mann-Whitney U-criterion, Sign test). The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author provides a description of developed and empirically verified theoretical model of entrepreneurial orientation as a systemic personality construct, explains the connection of this concept with the concepts of "personality orientation" and "professional orientation" , approach to the entrepreneurial orientation of the personality as a result of a complex interaction of processes of economic and professional self-determination, each of which requires specific means of psychological support. A special contribution is the description of psychological mechanisms of developing entrepreneurial orientation of the personality that were implemented in the author's psychological technologies which proved to be efficient in the process of the formative experiment. The article presents the author's validated diagnostic tools and describes the results of experimental approbation of the author's psychological technologies of developing the entrepreneurial orientation of the individual within the framework of psychological support.

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