RESEARCH OF THE PECULIARITIES OF SOCIAL VALUES OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

The article is focused on one of the urgent problems of modern psychological science - the problem of forming value orientations, world of values of the Ukrainian youth, students in particular, in terms of updating all spheres of the Ukrainian society. The aim of the paper is to study future specialists' social values in training process as a coordinate system of personality's living space, in which he/she carries out activities, evaluates him-/herself, builds relationships with other people. It is stated in the paper that value orientations expressing person's attitude towards different aspects of material and spiritual world are of great importance in personality structure; they reflect the level of its development, control its activity and behaviour, are an important element of students' world outlook and world perception. The article provides the review of the results of psychological research aimed at revealing the essence of students' social values. Qualitative analysis of the structure of social values hierarchical arrangement has allowed to conclude that the final stage of studying involves the development of students' supreme values of self-fulfillment and self-realization. That is the very reason why the values of professional life are the most significant. Financial and family values are at the second place. Social and moral values take the third place. Public and physical values are of the least importance for students. It can be concluded that the fundamental changes taking place in socio-political, economic, cultural and spiritual spheres of the society cause revolutionary changes in the psychology of value orientations, in the values hierarchy of public opinion; stipulate the necessity for rethinking dominating values and value orientations of a future specialist. Thus, under modern conditions of renewal of all the spheres of the Ukrainian society there is a need for changing strategic, global aims of the educational space aimed at creating socio-cultural environment providing the development of intellectual, ethical and moral personality and realization of a future specialist as an initiative, innovative and harmonious personality.