Representations about professional success of unconfident adolescents
- Authors: Makarevskaya Y.E.1
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Affiliations:
- Sochi State University
- Issue: Vol 16, No 5 (2025)
- Pages: 525-541
- Section: Psychological Studies
- Published: 31.10.2025
- URL: https://medbiosci.ru/2658-4034/article/view/363626
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.12731/2658-4034-2025-16-5-836
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/RTHJQX
- ID: 363626
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Abstract
Background. Adolescence is a period of active self-determination of the individual and the formation of a person's ideas about future life achievements, including professional ones. The desire for success acts as an actor of the goal-setting of the individual, a guideline in the implementation of tasks, and ideas about success reflect specific life goals and criteria for assessing a person's effectiveness in implementing his tasks.
Since a person as a subject of activity devotes most part of his life to professional work, most often social success is associated precisely with a person's professional activity and his career advancement.
Features of ideas about a particular part of reality are associated with the culture, society, age and personal characteristics of the subject. Considering that unstable self-esteem, vague prospects for the future, self-doubt prevail in adolescence, this work tested the assumption that insecure adolescents have some peculiarities in ideas about professional success.
Purpose is to reveal ideas about the professional success of unaffected adolescents.
Materials and methods. To study the ideas of adolescents, a questionnaire was developed, including statements describing professional success within 9 categories: material wealth, career growth, social status, satisfaction with the process and result of work, self-realization, recognition and approval by society, creative activity, personal characteristics, professionally important qualities.
Diagnosis of self-doubt was carried out using the MIS self-relationship research technique (developed by S.R. Pantileev) and the test for determining feelings of self-doubt (developed by E.I. Rogov).
The study sample consisted of older adolescents (N = 94, with 42 male (44.7%), and 52 female (55.3%) participants, average age 15.7 years old).
Data processing was carried out using the statistical package IBM SPSS statistics 25 (measures of the central trend, conjugacy tables, Chi-squared test).
Results. The study determined that the pronounced self-doubt in adolescents is associated with the predominance of their internal psychological criteria in the ranking of their ideas about professional success, namely, “self-realization”, “personal characteristics”, “satisfaction with the process”. Insecure adolescents avoid specific objectively fixed criteria for professional success, as opposed to confident ones, who are statistically significantly more likely to have an idea of professional success in the form of a measurable criterion which is “material wealth”.
About the authors
Yuliya E. Makarevskaya
Sochi State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: yuliya-sochi@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6937-6784
SPIN-code: 7308-1407
Scopus Author ID: 57224937203
ResearcherId: AAO-8568-2021
PhD in Psychological Sciences; Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of socio-pedagogical
Russian Federation, 94, Plastunskaya Str., Sochi, 354003, Russian Federation
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