Value-Semantic Preconditions of Professional Success of the Individual: Gender Measure

Abstract

The study is devoted to the examination of personal factors of professional success, namely the relationship between the components of social-communicative competence and value-semantic priorities of professional self-realisation, such as: professional status, social recognition, and creative self-realisation this is especially relevant in the context of creating the most favourable conditions for the professional development of young people. The purpose of the study is to identify gender features of social-communicative competence and identify how they affect objective and subjective measurements of professional success. The key research methods are a set of surveys, in particular, the author’s questionnaire called “Success” and the method of G.V. Protasova, “Social-communicative competence”. The results obtained demonstrate that for male representatives, the status measurement of professional success substantially correlates with the tolerance of the subjects to frustration, while in women this measurement of professional success is interrelated with the level of development of communicative competence. The study proposes that the desire for recognition as a measurement of professional success in male representatives is substantially interrelated with the orientation to success, and in female representatives, this measurement of success positively correlates with the tolerance of the subjects to frustration. It is proved that the desire for creative self-realisation as a measure of professional success correlates in male representatives with a high degree of personal autonomy, and in women – with high indicators of tolerance to uncertainty. The results of the study allow for determining the genderspecific features of psychological factors of professional success, namely, they represent the priority in this context for men of masculine, and for women of androgynous type of gender identity, which are certain coordinates for creating appropriate programmes for the development and actualisation of the potential of professional success of the individual