EMOTIONAL CREATIVITY AND MOTIVATION IN THE STRUCTURE OF A PSYCHOLOGIST`S PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

The issue of emotional creativity in relation to the motivation should be studied to complete scientific information on the role of emotional creativity in choosing the occupation of “psychologist” and carrying out the professional activity as a psychologist. The study states that the structure of emotional creativity is made up of conscious and unconscious components each containing certain elements. Thus, there are two types of emotional creativity – conscious and unconscious. A conscious emotional creativity is marked by the strive to acquire emotional experience and be able to properly express emotional feelings in the interaction with the people around. An unconscious emotional creativity is marked by the ability to accumulate different emotional experiences. The results of the empirical study demonstrated that the practical psychologists tend to have more indicators of conscious emotional creativity (the ability to understand different emotional impressions based on the acquired emotional experience; the ability to express new emotional impressions, sincerely, clearly and properly, the strive to gain new emotional experience) if compared to students-psychologists. It has been discovered that emotional creativity is to the greater extent related to the motives of the educational activity “knowledge”, “profession” and the motives of work “need for interaction”, “creativity”, “work satisfaction”. It has been shown that certain components of conscious and unconscious emotional creativity can both contrib- ute (as supported by positive correlations) and prevent (the presence of negative correlations) the occurrence of these motives. Based on the results of the factor analysis, there has been determined the structure of the emo- tional and motivational component of the professional activity of a psychologist. The author has summarized that the motivation of students tend to be closely related to the strive for new emotional feelings, while the practical professional psychologists tend to be motivated by the desire to acquire new emotional impressions.