PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF ADULTS INTELLECT AND SUBJECTNESS DEVELOPMENT

INTRODUCTION This Chapter considers the problems of developing mental features such as intellect and subjectness that are crucial to forming of all the mature professionals in any professional spheres. After all, these categories characterize an adult as a carrier of a certain mental model of the world, ready to solve professional and life problems, in other words, they create a psychological basis for mastering any professional competencies, as well as their inclusion in the competing systems that already exist in specialist in order to enrich the latter and, accordingly, professional growth. The latest research on subjectness examines the notion of a professional entity as organized integrity. According to V. Bykov and G. Bykova 1 (Bykov & Bykova, 2013), the subject of professional activity is a personality, which is characterized by professional subjectness as an integrative socio-psychological phenomenon. The latter provides the possibility to understand the meaning of the activity, set and implement within its scope its goals and initiate professional communication. A. Bodaliov 2 (Bodaliov, 1998), considering the concept of “professionalism” in terms of psychology, noted that the professional is the subject of activity, which has such stable characteristics of the mind, feelings, will, or, in other words, such mental features that allow him to perform the activity of his specialization at the high level of productivity. Along with the necessity to have the appropriate stable features, their development in the process of forming and renewing of professional activity is of no less importance.