PERSONAL IDENTITY AS A BASIS FOR PROFESSIONAL AND FAMILY CAREERS UNDER UNCERTAINTY

Aim. To study the connection between the characteristics of personal identity and plans for professional and family careers by young people during the period of emerging adulthood. The relevance of the study is determined by the difficulties of young people’s self-determination in the field of professional development and family due to the transitivity and high social uncertainty. Analysis of the role of personal identity as a result of self-knowledge and self-determination in the process of constructing professional and family careers, allows to optimize the life strategies of an individual and to increase the level of his vitality. The following tasks were presented in the article: 1) study of the characteristics of personal identity; 2) identification of life plans in the time perspective for family and professional careers; 3) study of the relationship between the characteristics of personal identity and the meaningfulness of life as an expression of the life strategy of young people during the period of emerging adulthood. Methodology. The techniques “Incomplete Sentences” / Ego Identity - Incomplete Sentence Blank (EI-ISB) “ by J. Marcia modified by V.R. Orestova and O.A. Karabanova, “Semi-structured interview” (Identity Status Interview - ISI) by J. Marcia, modified by V.R. Orestova and O.A. Karabanova, the author’s questionnaire “Life plans - family and professional careers” (SPK), the method of life-meaning orientations (D.A. Leontiev) were used. The sample consisted of 167 university students in Moscow and Penza, aged 17 to 22. Results. Polarization by identity status was revealed, a tendency of an increase in the status of identity diffusion was recorded with the decrease in the prevalence of foreclosure status. The heterochrony of the identity development, the tendency of the outstripping development of identity in the professional sphere among a significant number of respondents - students, which is reflected in the plans for professional career. A high level of identity in the professional sphere is associated with a high level of meaningfulness of life, the definition of life goals and the experience of its effectiveness as a person’s achievements in self-development. Theoretical Implication. Methods and techniques for practitioners are proposed, three groups of respondents are identified that differ in the level of formation of types of identity: with an unformed professional identity, with a high level of formation of professional identity, with a balance of types of identity with which it is possible to work on self-determination.

personal identity, identity status, professional career, family career, meaningfulness of life

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