Social I As a Factor in the Successful Adaptation of Future Psychologists to Professional Activities
The study is devoted to the phenomenon of social Self as a factor future psychologists' successful adaptation to professional activities. Social Self is presented as a variety of interaction components between individual and society, among them: personality traits perceived by others in process of interpersonal interaction; personality components formed through social values; personal characteristics that subject assesses as significant in social interactions, etc. Profession of a psychologist belongs to type of «person-to-person» professions and requires a specialist to have skills of constructive interpersonal interaction, and therefore success of future psychologists’ adaptation to professional activities largely depends on features of social Self development.