THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION OF A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH IN RESEARCH OF PROFESSIONAL WELL-BEING

Abstract

The article presents a theoretical and methodological justification of the systemic approach in the study of professional well-being of an individual. Professional well-being is viewed as a complex holistic system with an internal structure represented by a set of interconnected and interacting components that ensure its functioning. Professional well-being as a holistic phenomenon acquires a qualitatively new property, absent in its constituent elements, which is formed because of the interconnection and interaction of these elements within the whole, namely, the ability to self-regulate. Professional well-being appears as a dynamic system that strives to maintain equilibrium according to the concept of homeostasis and general systems theory. Maintaining balance indicates a favorable development of events for the employee, an indicator of which is the degree of his satisfaction with the results of his professional activities. When the balance is disturbed under the influence of the work environment or internal personal factors, personal resources are mobilized to return to the previous balance or ensure a new state of equilibrium and, thereby, ensure the integrity of the system. The methodological basis for the study of professional well-being as a complex system is a systems approach. The systems approach is the leading methodological basis of many branches of modern science, including psychology. Organizing the research on the principles of a systemic approach will allow us to fully consider individual aspects of the phenomenon under study, compare empirical data and systematize them to understand the phenomenology of the process of forming well-being in a professional context, and analyze individual elements of an individual’s professional well-being in connection with its holistic functioning.