Reflexive and Metacognitive Determinants of Professional Activity of IT Specialists

The article presents the results of a study of reflexive and metacognitive regulation of professional activity of IT specialists: analysts and programmers. It is shown that these types of information activities have a structural rather than analytical determination in relation to the main reflexive and metacognitive parameters. Patterns have been established according to which the structural organization of the main reflexive and metacognitive determinants differs both relative to the indices of the structural organization and in comparison with each other according to the criterion of homogeneity-heterogeneity, revealing qualitative differences among themselves due to the peculiarities of professional activity of each of the groups. They are differentiated according to professional affiliation and gender criterion. The ideas about the specifics of the relationship between antireflexion and other reflexive and metacognitive characteristics, mainly reflection, are formulated. It is negative with an equally high level of severity of each of them, which indicates the “suppression” of a high measure of development of one parameter by an equally high level of severity of the second, which does not reduce the overall potential of the structure, but on the contrary, strengthens it. Thus, a new type of connection in the structure is explicated – “inhibitory”, which reflects not synergistic effects, but also non-compensatory tendencies. The obtained results are based on the characteristics of a new subject-information class of activity.