Educational Motivation and Management Competence among Law Students at the Crimean Branch of the Russian State University of Justice

Aim. To study motivation and management competence of students majoring in legal specialties, as well as to identify the relationship between motivation and the ability to manage students of legal specialties.

Methodology. An empirical study was conducted aimed at studying the motivational component and management competence of students majoring at legal specialties. As instruments of empirical research, the methodology for diagnosing the motivational structure of the personality of V. E. Milman and the methodology for diagnosing the ability to self-government of N. M. Peisakhov.

Results. As a result of the study, it was concluded that students with a predominance of various emotional profiles (wall, asthenic and mixed) are characterised by multidirectional motivation.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the systematisation of students’ emotional profiles according to the prevailing components of the management process.

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