Psychological Readiness as a Component of Professional Training of Future Lawyers

Abstract

The relevance of the study is conditioned by the presence of a large number of problems of the professional training of future lawyers and the great importance of the practical application of attributes of psychological readiness in matters of their effective professional training. The purpose of the study is to comprehensively analyse the phenomenon of psychological readiness, to identify its relationship with the professional training of future lawyers, and to find out the most effective measures for the development of psychological readiness of future lawyers as a component of professional training. The following methods of scientific cognition were used in the study: terminological, logical and semantic, system and structural, functional, logical and normative, and non-experimental quantitative method of data collection by survey. The results showed that the psychological readiness of students to study has characteristics depending on what specialisation the law student chooses in the future. It was found that although students’ psychological readiness for e-learning was high, they lacked technological and instrumental readiness. In general, the results obtained and the conclusions formulated on their basis have both theoretical and practical importance, which consists in improving scientific approaches to understanding the content of psychological readiness as a component of professional training of future lawyers. These results can be used in the future as a developed scientific base for investigating the prospects for studying the psychological readiness of law students, solving and developing problematic issues revealed in this study, and implementing them in the educational process.