Determinants of Professional Self-motivation and Educational Motivation of Students

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of professional self-determination of young people under the influence of social and personal factors. The classification of these factors based on the purposeful impact on the process of professional self-determination is considered. The following types of influence were identified: external social determinants, internal social determinants, and personal determinants of professional self-determination. External social determinants represent all kinds of career guidance technologies: advertising, campaigning, involvement in clubs, and so on. Internal social determinants are various forms of influence of parents and relatives on the decision of young people. Personal determinants are conscious, independent, and informed choices based on personal motives, interests, and abilities. As a result of analysis of numerous studies, scientific knowledge about the nature of motive and motivation, depending on the educational motive of professional self-determination, has been identified and insufficiently studied problem of the interdependence of the determinants of professional identity and learning motivation of University students. The conducted empirical research revealed some regularities in the development of educational motivation of students whose professional self-determination was influenced by specific determinants.