Psychological readiness for management and self-control of behavior as components of the potential competitiveness of senior pupils

The authors conduct a comparative analysis of the concepts «psychological readiness for management» and «self-control of behavior», considering them as necessary and interrelated components in the structure of the potential competitiveness of senior pupils. An empirical research using the test-questionnaire of psychological readiness for management in a modification of M.N. Sharafutdinova (PRM-S) and the questionnaire "Style of self-control of behavior" of V.I. Morosanova conducted on a sample of senior pupils (n = 315). Numerous statistically significant connection of components of psychological readiness for management and styles of self-control were revealed. All indicators of psychological readiness for management are connected with the general level of self-control of senior pupils. Statistically significant correlation were discovered between the general level of self-control and such components of psychological readiness for management as “achievement orientation”, “analytical thinking”, “initiative”, and “conception thinking”. The results show that such values-based orientations of a senior pupils as his striving for work's high results, a versatile analysis of his actions, a tendency to use all the existing possibilities of the current situation to achieve a goal, as well as many other values in the field of management, organically connected with the ability of senior pupils for self-control of behavior.