Formation of personality traits in the structure of psychological regulation of behavior of students – future IT specialists

Introduction.

The study is aimed at identifying the specifics of personality traits in the structure of psychological regulation of behavior of future and current IT specialists. The goal of the research is to assess the personality traits of future IT specialists with subsequent forecasting of professional trajectories. Special attention is paid to risk factors that reduce the productivity of professional activities of IT specialists. The role of personality traits in overcoming these risks, as well as methods for developing personality traits in the educational environment, is determined. To test the hypothesis that such personality traits of students in the field of IT technologies as emotional-volitional, moralethical, organizational, and communicative significantly influence the regulation of behavior and educational outcomes, an empirical study was conducted.

Materials and methods.

The collection of empirical data was carried out using an author's questionnaire dedicated to studying the relationship between educational outcomes of students and their personality traits, the Big Five questionnaire, the Subjective Control Level (SCL) research methodology, the "Self-Regulation of Behavior Style" (SRBS) questionnaire by V.I. Morosanova, the methodology for studying motivation for success and avoidance of failure (A. Mehrabian), as well as the questionnaire on professional orientation of personality (AND). At the first stage, the method of group expert evaluation was applied, during which two expert groups were formed, consisting of IT company managers (25 people aged 30 to 55, of whom 52 % are women and 48 % are men) and teachers implementing educational programs related to IT technologies (30 people aged 28 to 60, of whom 60 % are women and 40 % are men). At the second stage, an empirical study was conducted, in which 60 students – future IT specialists participated, of whom 56 % are girls and 44 % are boys, aged 20 to 24.

Results.

This study on the formation of personality traits in the structure of psychological regulation of IT specialists revealed risk factors that reduce the effectiveness of their work and the role of emotional-volitional, moral-ethical, organizational, and communicative qualities in their development. The more developed these qualities are, the higher the indicators of planning, flexibility, and independence. The empirical study allowed to study the personality traits of future IT specialists and to predict professional trajectories, comparing the data with the survey of experts from among company managers and teachers.

Discussion and conclusions.

Based on the results of the empirical study, it is concluded that the research hypothesis is confirmed and the importance of the task of forming personality traits in the structure of psychological regulation of behavior of students – future IT specialists is substantiated.