Types of image “I”-specialist in professional adaptation and their psychodiagnostics

The study aimed to create a classification of “I”-specialist image types in professional adaptation by considering factors such as professional identity, self-esteem, work motivation, emotional satisfaction, and direction of adaptation. In the study, a dispositional-reflexive approach was employed to describe different types of the “I”-specialist image. Various theoretical and methodological approaches were utilised, including analysis of scientific sources, systematisation and generalisation of data, psychological observation, and classification. It has been established that the basic “I” is the reflective semantic orientations of the individual, which are responsible for choices, decisions and actions in the course of life, and the situational “I” is a complex of peculiar personal qualities of a specialist, which regulate the style features of behaviour and act as social face. It was proven that the use of the methodology “Image of “I”-specialist in the activity structure of professional adaptation” allows for the classification and typological description of the “I”-specialist image based on the study of invariants (aspects) of professional activity and their corresponding configurations. The paper presented a questionnaire designed to assess an individual’s professional identity. It also suggested suitable strategies for the professional adaptation of specialists, aiming to enhance the effectiveness of personnel management measures within the organisation.A consideration of the indicators of behavioural-cognitive-emotional-reflective strategies of the individual professional adaptation was presented: the level of professional adaptation, which is determined by the degree of coincidence of the “I”-basic and “I”-situational and emotional satisfaction with work, definition of its object, leading activity structure of professional adaptation, the profile of which includes: content of orientation, level of development, spatial-temporal orientation, emotional attitude to professional activity and corresponding types of professional identity of the “I”-specialist image (business, communicator, existentialist, student, performer, creator, transformer, attributionist, perfectionist, experienced, opportunist, forecaster, pessimist, moderate, optimist), that is, images of professional self-perception that are manifested in the psychology of the specialist’s production environment. The transformation of the “I”-specialist image as a result of changes in professional self-esteem, identity, motivation, and emotional satisfaction with work was considered. The practical significance of the obtained results is that the classification of professional self-perception types allows to deepened understanding of the “I”-specialist image in various professional fields, to meaningfully outline the activity structure of a specialist’s professional adaptation, to predict its process and result, which will be useful to the psychological service of the enterprise (organisation) and personnel managers, which will increase the effectiveness of the implementation of measures to manage the process and result of the professional adaptation of specialists in modern conditions professional adaptation, to predict its process and result, which will be useful to the psychological service of the enterprise (organisation) and personnel managers, which will increase the effectiveness of the implementation of measures to manage the process and result of the professional adaptation of specialists in modern conditions.