успех, профессиональный успех, профессиональные представления, профессиональная мотивация, ценности студентов, Social Sciences

The article presents the results of the theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of a success in psychology and the results of the empirical research of the content of representations about professional success and attitude towards it in connection with the professional motivation, purpose-in-life and value orientations of students –psychologists. The introduction emphasizes the urgency to the study of the students' representations about professional success in the context of the challenges of modern Russian society. On the basis of literature review it is concluded that the phenomenon of success is revealed in relation to the objective achievement of the subject specific activities and characterized as value-semantic formation. The study involved 90 students-psychologists of the two universities of Rostov-on-Don. The methods of essay, content analysis, testing and mathematical statistics were used. The results of the study indicate the correlation between the content and attitude components of the representations about professional success. The connection between the representations about professional success with the predominance of internal professional motivation / external negative motivation, between the representations about professional success with the respondents' purpose-in-life orientations and their value orientations has been identified. It is concluded about the complex internal relations between the representations about professional success, values and professional motivation of the person.