CAREER READINESS, SEF-EFFICACY AND INTERCULRAL COMPETENCE OF THE STUDENTS

This article is dedicated to the study of career readiness, self-efficacy and intercultural competence of the conflictology students. The following research methods were used: “Self-efficacy scale” by R. Schwarzer and M. Yerusalem adapted by V.G. Romek, the method of “Career decision-making phases” by A. Hirschi and D. Lage and “Integrative questionnaire of intercultural competence” (O.E. Khukhlaev, V.V. Gritsenko, A.V. Makarchuk, O.S. Pav¬¬lova, N.V. Tkachenko, S.A. Usubyan, V.A. Shorokhova). The following methods of mathematical data processing were used: descriptive statistic analysis, single-sample Chi-square concordance test, and correlation analysis using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. The study involved 72 students of the Department of Conflictology, of which 59 female students and 13 male students aged 18 to 20 years. The study found that most conflictology students are in the process of making a career decision. The distribution of students in career readiness phases differs from uniform. 23 % of conflictology students had a low level of self-efficacy, 68 % had an average level, and 9 % had a high level of self-efficacy. Most students have intercultural traits that promote intercultural communication. In addition, the study showed that the majority of the students are characterized by a lack of ethnocentrism. 75 % of the participants of the study have average scores on the “Intercultural Engagement Management scale”, which may indicate that students may have little experience of intercultural communication. It has been shown that there are significant relationships between self-efficacy and the following indicators of intercultural competence: intercultural stability, intercultural interest and lack of ethnocentrism.