Особливості креативності майбутнього інженера як складової його професіоналізму

Abstract

The features of creativity, its importance for successful professional development and achievement of personal professionalism are investigated in the article. The article gives valuable information on the need of creativity development, ability to approach creatively to the solution of professional tasks during the vocational training of the future engineers that is reflected in Industry standards (The educational and qualification characteristics) and is realized by many of them. The figurative and verbal creativity are investigated by means of a complex of psychodiagnostic techniques: technique «Circles» (Varteg); test of verbal creativity (S. Mednik); «Repeating Lines» test (P. Torrens); test of creativity (P. Torrens). 92 respondents from 20 to 23 years (M = 21,6 SD = 2,6) took part in the research, all of them are the students of various technical specialties (the mechanic, the mathematician, the programmer, etc.). It is revealed that future engineers have a figurative creativity, fluency and a readiness at the average level of development that characterize their ability to reproduce and realize ideas in short terms. The verbal originality is at a low level, and uniqueness is on an average one that testifies to unexpressed ability of the future engineers creatively to solve the problems which are connected with the use of their verbal potential. As a whole the students of technical specialties are characterized by unavailability in a situation of uncertainty with a time limit quickly to produce ideas. The results of the gender analysis testify to the men’s more developed figurative and verbal creativity. The women have the most expressed indicator of their creation ability, it means that they are capable to detailed development and improvements of already made ideas. By means of the factorial analysis there have been distinguished three factors which have the greatest loading: «Intellectual potential», «The general creativity», «Analytical creative potential». The established creativity structure of the future engineers develops the characteristic orientations of creative potential: intellectual, general and creative ones.