Student's motivational and value correlates specific for the engineering activity

The article discusses the issues of psychological factors of readiness for performing types of engineering tasks among students of technical fields of study. The authors focus on the motivational and value characteristics of a future technical specialist: internal and external motivation, personal values of self-development, creativity, achievements, material well-being, preservation of individuality, interest in the field of electrical and radio engineering, as well as types of orientation to engineering activities – research, design, production and organizational. The study is devoted for the identification of a stable relationship between motivational and value indicators and orientation towards types of engineering activities among technical students. An empirical study was conducted using the methods "Orientation to the type of engineering activity" (O.P. Godlinik), "Motivation of professional activity" (K. Zamfir), axiological orientation of personality (A.V. Kaptsov, L.V. Karpushina), "Golomstock's map of interests" (A.E. Golomstock, modified by O.P. Meshkovskaya, etc.), Spearman's Rank correlation method. The novelty of the research lies in the identification of motivational and value correlates for engineering. The main conclusions of the study: motivational indicators prevail in the focus on research and organizational types of engineering activities; for the focus on research and organizational types, the expression of motivation for success and internal positive motivation is of the greatest importance; for the focus on the design type, the value of material well-being is of the greatest importance; the reduction of the pragmatic value of achievements is of the greatest importance for the focus on the production type; the humanistic value of self-development is characteristic only for the focus on the organizational type of engineering activity; the pragmatic value of achievements in the inverse relationship is characteristic only for the focus on the production type of engineering activity.

orientation, type of engineering activity, humanistic values, pragmatic values, interest in the profession, motivational and value factor, technical specialist, personal qualities, personal values, motivation of professional activity