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2020, Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages: 1315-1320
paid to the professional and social blocks of personal
competence [19]. But, on the other hand, for a more complete
realization of his professional potential, a person needs to be
active, initiative, willing to take risks, use creative and
intellectual resources of the person, and also interact with the
surrounding society. In addition, social interaction skills
characterize the success of professional activities, especially in
the field of professions “person-person” [20 – 29].
In addition, the nature and essence of the value is not disclosed.
It indicates only its social conditioning and significance for the
individual. However, these characteristics are quite superficial
in nature, especially since too many categories fall under them.
As a result of this, it is often difficult, and sometimes
impossible, to separate the value itself and other categories of
personality, such as motive, need, etc. [40 - 44].
As P.I. Smirnov [45] points out, the value cannot exist by
itself, separated from the world and man, nor can it be only
socially conditioned and characterized only by the degree of
abstract significance. The value is, first and foremost, an
incentive to activity, both external and internal one. Something
is valuable which efforts are made for, what is the goal. In
addition, value cannot exist in a single form; usually it forms a
system with other values. Throughout the past century, several
attempts have been made to derive a number of fundamental,
universal values. However, the models were built on the
classification of all existing specific values, which led to their
ambiguity and methodological problems in research. The value
in this approach, in short, was significant for everyone in
general and at the same time few for anyone specifically in its
embodiment in the life of an individual. Therefore, for the
effective study of value orientation, it is necessary to develop a
different approach. In recent years, the implementation of new
approaches to the study of values has been undertaken by social
psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers. All of them have
different theoretical bases and methodological principles.
As you can see, the former professional competencies and
state support are far from being the guarantee of successful
employment and the effective implementation of their
resources. Despite the measures taken and the high rates of
professional competence, young people continue to experience
difficulties in finding work, in the implementation of their
project and research work. This issue was noted by N.K.
Chapaev [30, 31]. In his opinion, in the framework of the
development of main competencies, a skillful approach is
implemented, which includes the development of competencies
of specific knowledge and skills, as well as skills for successful
presentation of oneself to the employer [32]. Thus, from the
point of view of this approach, a person is gradually split, from
a holistic personality to a carrier of a set of professionally
important characteristics without the desire for self-
improvement and self-development. In the light of what has
been said, it becomes clear that it is also necessary to study the
competence associated with the development of the “self”. This
competency was identified by the Council of Europe, in
particular by Walo Hutmacher [33]. It is it that contains the
position of the active “I” of the subject of professional activity.
This position is the bearer of such personality characteristics as
life strategies, life-meaning orientations, value orientations.
They affect professional activity, characterize its style, quality,
purpose and development paths.
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Methodological Framework
In our opinion, it is more efficient to consider the value
orientation in the context of deep orientation proposed in the
works of the German sociologist and social psychologist E.Z.
Fromm [46]. According to his conception, a person’s life
strategy is determined by his social character, specific deep
In our opinion, one of the key categories in this competency
is value orientation, since it has a significant impact on the
formation of social competence and on the position of the
subject of professional activity, especially a young specialist-
beginner. The applied character of the category of value
orientation is manifested in its integrality and multidimensional
influence on the personality in general, the professional in
particular. The value orientation in its definition reflects
significant, key values, goals, motives and other characteristics
of the value and motivational sphere, which, in turn, are
integrated into complex schemes. In the context of
professionalism, it is important by the fact that it fills the
subjective position of the person with concrete content [34].
This subjective position determines the career guidance of the
person, the system of its professional views and skills, the
direction of development of the personality of a professional.
In a sense, value orientation can be described as an engine for
the development of a professional, not only as a high-quality
specialist, but also as a socially responsible and personally
determined subject of professional activity. It is the complete,
harmonious development of all these areas that determines the
formation of a professional and contributes to the development
of the innovative potential of young people [35 -39].
Accordingly, the study of these characteristics should also be
implemented as part of the value-integrated approach.
However, in the analysis of recent studies on the problem of
value orientation, we can mainly find research programs
focused on obtaining information only about the prevalence of
any values over others, as well as attempts to establish a
relationship of a particular single value with any psychological
trait. Such an approach, postulating discreteness of the value
and value orientation, represents value orientation in the form
of a closed, rigidly fixed system. Such a system is not capable
of possessing signs of integrality and continuity of functioning.
orientation, which comprises
a number of integrated
parameters. These orientations are called “To Be” and “To
Have.” As V. Dobrenkov [47] points out, Fromm thinks of the
development of society as a system with two poles; on one of
them is a social character, designed to stabilize a person’s
position in society, on the other - human nature, which creates
social conditions. In the framework of this school, value is
presented to us as part of this deep orientation, or, as mentioned
above, the ultimate goal of existence. However, along with the
orientations “To Be” and “To Have”, E. Fromm introduces the
concept of “Existential possession”. E. Fromm [46] defines this
category as a rationally determined desire for self-preservation,
which does not contradict the nature of “To Be”. The
appearance of the construct “Existential possession” in
Fromm’s concept poses the question of what positions the
modes of “To Be” and “To Have” identified by him should be
considered from [46]. Theoretical and methodological analysis
of Fromm’s work regarding the modes of “To Be” and “To
Have” allows us to state that in his works there is no description
of the role and place of the construct of “Existential possession”
in the context of the modes of human existence.
Studying the phenomenon of “Existential possession” we
can assume that it can be placed between two bipolar poles, one
of which is the principle of “To Be”, and the other is the
principle of “To Have”. However, with this approach, we
encounter a rather simplified understanding of the combination
of the modes “To Be” and “To Have”, or rather, with the
understanding of the impossibility of any combination of them.
With a continuous location, it turns out that a person can only
be assessed as realizing himself in accordance with one of the
poles: either in accordance with the principle of “To Be”, or in
accordance with the principle of “To Have”. In this case,
“Existential possession” is a kind of compromise between these
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