Development of a conceptual apparatus for the subject area of female professional mentality in psychology

Introduction . Currently, our country is implementing many programs aimed at supporting women's employment and professional development through various educational and creative initiatives. Research into women's professional mentality will help develop more psychologically sound proposals for programs to support women's self-realization in the professional sphere. The aim of the paper is to develop a conceptual apparatus of the subject area of female professional mentality, which will allow describing it with the necessary and sufficient degree of completeness. Materials and methods . Categorical method of mutations (permutations) of decoding concepts, based on the information-dynamic approach. Results . 1) New concepts have been synthesized (emotional, intuitive and competence resources of female professional mentality; target, result-evaluative and motivational self-regulation; approaches to implementation, results and characteristics influencing the result of intellectual activity; socio-cultural, educational and professional conditioning of development; aim-oriented, result-oriented management and management of the motivational component), which represent a set of categories and concepts for describing the phenomenon of female professional mentality. 2) The synthesized concepts have been interpreted and generalized aspects of female professional mentality (resources, self-regulation, content, logic of development and management of female professional mentality) have been identified in accordance with the groups of synthesized concepts. Discussion and conclusions . The developed conceptual apparatus of the subject area of female professional mentality: 1) describes female professional mentality with the necessary and sufficient degree of completeness; 2) provides a systemic understanding of the phenomenon; 3) defines directions for further research of this subject area.