MOTIVATION OF ADULTS TO OBTAIN PSYCHOLOGICAL EDUCATION AS A RESOURCE FOR THE HR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of obtaining higher psychological education by adult professionals and its significance for the formation of personnel potential in the field of human resource management. The relevance of the work is due to the growing demand for specialists with competencies in the field of human relations and the steady trend of professional reorientation among adults aged 26–55. Based on a content analysis of detailed selfpresentations of 168 students majoring in Psychology at the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Kherson Technical University», four leading types of motivation are identified and described: professional-instrumental, personal-therapeutic, value-semantic, and existential-cognitive. The dependence of requests for training content on previous professional experience (economics and management, medicine, pedagogy, law) is revealed. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the systematization of motivational profiles of adult students, taking into account regional specifics (living in front-line zones), which made it possible to identify a unique demand for competencies in the field of crisis psychology. The practical value of the work consists in identifying the high potential of this category of students as a strategic resource for the HR sphere and formulating recommendations for adapting professional retraining educational programs to their heterogeneous needs.