Personality-Related Factors of Self-Fulfillment in Professional Activities

The article contains analysis of processes and mechanisms for self-fulfillment in professional activities, describes its criteria. It includes results of empiric research of personal determinants behind the individual’s self-fulfillment, broaches the difficulties faced by an individual in his/her self-fulfillment. The work is oriented on the review of personal determinants of the professional self-fulfillment. Authors conducted a survey on the personal determinants of self-fulfillment. It has confirmed that level of self-fulfillment is linked, primarily, with achievements in professional activities and particularities of motivation. The work asserted that people with a high level of self-fulfillment are in their perceptions more oriented on themselves, self-analysis, achievement of professional results and people with average and low levels of self-fulfillment are more oriented on approval by manager, attainment of status. An individual should be able to transform difficulties and obstacles in order to create new circumstances or change them due to personal transformation of goals, intentions, expectations and claims.