Career guidance counseling requires psychological assessment of psychological readiness for professional identity to be optimized. “Self-Change Potential” questionnaire testing on a sample of high school students has shown that it has reliable psychometric characteristics. It has been empirically proved that senior high students with high self-change potential reveal a more pronounced psychological readiness for professional identity. The study showed certain differences among the groups of senior high students with different level of self-change potential on the following indicators: a level of subjective control and awareness of professions available. The questionnaire can be helpful in integral assessment of the level of students’ readiness for professional identity.

Semikin Viktor Vasilyevich, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Professor, Head, Sector for Social and Psychological Research Arctic Research Center, 20, Respublikа st., Salekhard, 629008, Russian Federation, e-mail: semikin_v@mail.ru

Anisimov Aleksey Igorevich, Candidate of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor, Department of Counseling Psychology and Health Psychology, Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Psychology and Social Work, 13А, 12 Liniya Vasil`evskogo Ostrova st., Saint Petersburg, 199178, Russian Federation, e-mail: aai101@mail.ru

Krupina Kristina Mikhailovna, Graduate Student, Saint Petersburg State University, 6, Makarov Embankment, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, e-mail: arbuzova.kristina.m@mail.ru

Semikin V.V., Anisimov A.I., Krupina K.М. Personality Self-Change Potential in the Context of Professional Identity of High School Students. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Psychology, 2021, vol. 38, pp. 65-82. https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2021.38.65 (in Russian)

high school students’ professional identity, psychological assessment in career, guidance counseling, agency of self-identifying personality, psychological readiness for professional identity, personality self-change potential.

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