Polymotivation as a Phenomenon of Professional Activity of Civil Aviation Pilots

Abstract

As is known, among many domestic psychologists there was a widespread view that human activity and behavior are due to many motives at the same time (L.I. Bozhovich, V.K. Vilyunas, I.V. Imedadze, V.I. Kovalev, A.N. Leontiev, V.F. Petrenko, M.M. Filipov, etc.). Similarly, in Western psychology, the emphasis is mainly on the simultaneous conditioning of behavior and activity by many goals or personal dispositions (J. Atkinson, J. O. Raynor, X. Heckhausen, etc.). Thus, scientists ponder, in fact, about the phenomenon of polymotivation because the motive is understood too narrowly: as a need, or as a goal, or as one of the motivators.