Features of the Regulation of Negative Emotions and Stress of People Choosing the Profession of an Investigator

The features of the image of a professional investigator, associated with the skills of regulation of emotions, were studied in young people studying in this specialization. It was found out whether these features are manifested in experienced specialists or serve as a guide at different stages of the formation of professional identity, how they change in the course of training. Two studies involved cadets of two universities n = 274, a comparison group of psychologists, n = 78. Results processing methods: dispersion and discriminant analysis. The results revealed specific combinations of ways to explain successes and failures with actions to overcome them, which contribute to greater effectiveness of the investigator from the point of view of cadets at the beginning and at the end of training, and as part of ordinary ideas about a professional serve as a guide when choosing a profession. It turned out that the psychological characteristics corresponding to these ideas are involved in the process of the formation of professional identity, distinguishing the initial stages of its formation from the later ones. The results also make it possible to describe the mechanism for transforming the image of a professional among investigators in the process of studying at a university.