CONSTRUCTING THE WORLD’S IMAGE OF THE SPECIALIST IN A FIELD OF PHYSICAL REHABILITATION AS A MECHANISM FOR DETERMINING HIS/HER PROFESSIONAL AUTHENTICITY

Abstract

The article deals with the characteristics of person’s image of the world and explicates their direct connections with the problem of studying the meaning of human actions. The study of values in the axiological paradigm testifies to their connections with the events which take place. The latter causes the specialist to update the problems and tasks of his/her professional activity. In this case, it is of particular importance that the responsibility of the specialist was understood as a person guaranteed to maintain a certain high level and a quality of the activity for a specific period of time, despite unforeseen difficulties, and determining the degree of coordination of these or other determinants, based on actualized personal needs, the degree of people’s awareness, as well as their own value-meaning relationships.
Systematic metatheoretical development of psychology as a science allows us to see the object-object paradigm field of definitions, categories and concepts more broader and deeper, and the methodological positions are developed by psychology and they allow us to shift the emphasis of scientific consideration on the study of mental processes of the person to the analysis of how it was organized the objective world for the subject. Thus, in order to study the features of the professional development of a specialist in a field of physical rehabilitation in details, in this research the process of constructing the image of the world is shown since the very study of the features of this design leads to the understanding of the person, conditions and features of his/her personal and professional growth.
In the paradigm of increasing actualization of the problem of identification of specificity, origin, development, functioning, as well as ways of researching the whole variety of individual and group cultural-historical models of the world, images of the reality and images of the world, we are interested in professionally mediated vision of the world, which significantly arises in the conditions of higher professional education, according to the process of training a specialist in a field of physical rehabilitation.
The concept of professional authenticity of a specialist in a field of physical rehabilitation was formulated in a paradigm of constructs which represent the specificity of the individual or a group, promoting the indirect vision of the world. It was stated that the professional authenticity of a specialist is a multidimensional personal neoformation, which was regulated by social and professional norms and forms of the professional activity which had been arising on the basis of professional programs and professional patterns of the person’s behavior and activity. The components in the structure of professional authenticity were distinguished: qualitative characteristics of professional authenticity, which perform regulatory functions at the psychological level of providing professional activity; professionally predetermined components of professional authenticity, including those features the formation of which directly depends on the specific content of the professional activity; motivational subcomponents of professional authenticity, mainly determined by assessments of the “professional motivation” of the person.
We also believe that professional authenticity is closely linked to vital productivity. It is a result of the adaptability, maturity and productivity of the person, the result of the influence of the “active mode of culture” on the professional activity of this specialist. The level of professional authenticity, in our opinion, is generally related to the positive “I-concept” of the person, the experience of authorship in the exercise of the professional activity, according to the orientation to the usage of active forms of “mastering” behavior in the professional sphere, professional productivity, professional success, sociometric status and the degree of professional self-fulfillment. In turn, professional authenticity has a negative relationship with reactive anxiety, neuroticism, passive forms of “mastering” behavior by the person.
Professional authenticity allows a specialist who provides his/her professional activity in a field of physical rehabilitation to perform a professional task or different tasks fairly effectively, productively and creatively in given (necessary for the latter) conditions. The latter allows us to analyze professional authenticity from a systemic standpoint, focusing on a comprehensive study of the activity of a person in such kind of specific types of professional activities.
Professional authenticity is greatly enhanced under the influence of the subject’s specific conditions of his/her professional activity. The latter seems to be “imprinting” according to the content of professional authenticity in its whole structure. In the process of mastering by a person his/her professional skills, personality traits are formed. These conditions allow people to act successfully in the complicated conditions of performing professional activity. In difficult professions connected with a great risk (such kind of profession is the profession of a person who provides his/her professional activity in a field of physical rehabilitation), the role of professional authenticity is growing significantly. However, in the most cases its development is spontaneous. Thus, this process can also have a specially organized, well-directed nature.