Noss, I. N. Peculiarities of Diagnostics of Cognitive Activity as a Factor of Professional Personality Development

Abstract: The author of the article focuses on the problem of cognitive activity as a factor of personal professional development. The author also describes an important feature of professional psychodiagnostics, the dependence of efficiency of professional activity on intelligence as a dynamic system of personality. The author also studies features of psychological assessment of intellectual activity of a person who has reached maturity, the influence of stratification of intelligence in the course of personality maturing and analyze tools of diagnostics, schemes of experiments and correspondence of intellectual features with personality accentuations, age crises and regional and professional features of intellectual activity. As the main methodical approach, the author applies the longitudinal research plan that has been carried out for nine years. The research methods chosen by the author are quite diverse. They include both qualitative method such as observation, examination, opinion surveys and interview and test procedures. Scientific novelty of research is in application of longitudinal and cross empirical «cuts» on extensive real selection of civil servants in the course of their professional and personal development. Results of test measurements were compared to particular objective results of professional activity. Frequency of measurements and constant validation of research tools gave the chance to receive reliable results in many respects confirming results of foreign and Russian diagnostic projects. In conclusion the author emphasizes that the most important psychological characteristic of personal and professional development of the personnel is their cognitive activity.

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