[The occupationally important qualities of adolescents studying for the job of power engineer-operator]

Investigation is made and data given for the rising generation from III and IV class trained for the specialty "operator-power technician". Studies are carried out on a number of properties of the Central Nervous Activity and the analyzers, some functions of attention, as well as specific personal characteristics of 44 professionally suitable and 21 professionally unsuitable schoolchildren. The results of the comparative analysis of the experimental material, and the received correlation relation of the incidences with the external criteria "success in the mastering of the profession" give grounds to accept that the high versatility of the basic nervous processes, the capacity for concentration, resistance and swiftness in switching the attention, the low personal uneasiness and expressed emotional stability are of professional importance and determine the possibility for success in mastering the profession "operator-power technician".