Psychological Barriers in Professional Activities of Engineers

Abstract

This paper is devoted to considering a system of psychological barriers which can result from professional activities of a modern engineer. It is based on the content analysis of tasks typical for engineer’s professional activity. It is discovered that implementation of engineer’s professional activities causes barriers reflecting difficulties of professional skills: emotional, motivational, cognitive, operational, and others. The experimental study of psychological barriers among engineers of different experience groups was carried out on the basis of the method of expert evaluations. The most significant difficulties identified in all groups of experts are value and motivating, reflective, of creative constriction, subject-subject relationship, communication. It is shown that the identified system of psychological barriers allows to apply corrective actions for engineers to develop their barrier resistance to improve their professional activity in general.

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