The Relationship of Existential Fulfillment and Professional Satisfaction

The paper presents a study of the relationship between existential fulfillment and satisfaction with the professional choice. Correlations and predictor possibilities of existential fulfillment and satisfaction with professional choice are described with self-efficacy, the degree of professional identity, the ability to reveal creative potential during professorial activity, as well as concerning the subjective sense of the degree of usefulness of the profession in three dimensions: for the world, for loved ones, for life. Three directions of motives of professional activity are analyzed and established: internal-orientation to oneself, one's development, improvement, etc.; external – orientation to return, the ability to share something useful and meaningful with other people and the world; mixed-orientation both inside and outside, implying the circulation of opportunities that a person uses and synthesizes for himself with the subsequent goal of sharing this synthesis with others and the outside world. From a practical point of view, with data on existential fulfillment, it is possible to predict professional satisfaction to some extent, and Vice versa.