Peculiarities of professional motivation of private and public schools teachers

The aim of the article is description of the results of the research devoted to the study of peculiarities in the professional motivation of private and public schools teachers. The article gives a brief description of the notions “motive” and “motivation”, examines the directions of research of these notions, reveals the specifics of the content of professional motivation of teachers, analyzes its types and motivating factors. The article describes the results of the research carried out using the techniques: “The study of motivational profile of personality” (Sh. Richie and P. Martin), and “The study of the motives of the teaching profession” (T. N. Silchenkova). Conclusions are drawn concerning the existence of statistically significant differences between groups of respondents engaged in professional activity in private and public schools on separate scales of motivational profile of the personality.