Value-Motivational Aspects Social Activity Development at the Higher Education Institution Specialists

Using the latest educational technologies and active
methods of social activity development in future specialists in
the educational space under today’s conditions is significantly
complicated by existing levels of the object and subject studies
of various patterns. The authors studied a wide range of foreign
and domestic interdisciplinary works and models which
describe the implementation of research methodology of the
individual socialization process to study the development of
specialists’ social activity. Also, the authors defined the relevant
patterns of students’ involving in socially significant activities
due to the changes in value-motivational aspects at different
stages of social activity development at the higher education
institution. The structural and functional components are
determined, and the research parameters specifying the changes
of value-motivational factors of social activity development in
future socionomy specialists are substantiated. The article
provides empirical diagnostics of values among the students of
socionomic professions within the sociological and pedagogical
research of social activity with the participation of 610 students
from four Ukrainian higher education institutions. The
diagnostics was carried out by means of the shortened version
of the “Portrait Questionnaire of Values - PVQ-Revised”. It
has been found out that the development of social activity in
future socionomy specialists is mainly related to changes in
motivational aspects at different levels of generality and
complexity; it includes such constructs as values, goals,
behavior plans which require a qualitative analysis of social
factors and identification of relevant patterns of students’
involvement in socially significant activities.