Priimuk A. Psychological conditions for the formation of professional qualities of higher education graduates

In the dissertation research a new solution of a scientific problem is presented, which consists in determining the content, structure of components and peculiarities of psychological conditions for the formation of professional qualities in future restaurant business experts and the substantiation and testing of a comprehensive training program for the development of professional qualities during vocational training. The empirical model of research and conceptual model of formation of professional qualities of future restaurant business specialists, which contain theoretical basis, substantiated the complex of methods and psychodiagnostic research methods, and developed a comprehensive training program for the formation of its separate structural components. At the empirical level, features of the content, structure, manifestations of professional qualities of future restaurant business specialists are revealed on the basis of such structural components as: communicative, motivational, professional orientation, emotional-volitional, individual-psychological. Summary results of empirical research helped identify features of the components professionally important qualities of future professionals in the restaurant business. Determined that the students of 1–2 years of training are underdeveloped communication and organizational skills in motivational sphere prevailing external motives and reasons of prestige, avoid, and there is a low level of emotional and volitional regulation and on individual psychological characteristics, need psychological treatment factors that contribute to behavioral sphere interaction, emotional stability, which in general is testimony to the application of psychological technologies in dynamic educational and professional activity. However, graduates in teaching formed professionally important qualities, although they need psychological treatment, namely leadership and organizational characteristics, manifestations of emotional and volitional instability. The efficiency of using a comprehensive training program for the development of professional qualities is proved, which is manifested in the significant improvement of the indicators of its structural components compared with background and control data.