Psychologist profession: development of competences and professionalisation process

The aim of this work is to study professions from a psychosocial perspective. As such, a semi-structured questionnaire was used to detect the "specific" and "transversal" competences of two professional groups: psychologists and educators. The results show the job seniority and the intervention area are the two elements, linked to the professional context, more involved into the development of the perception of oneself competence and consequently into professionalisation process. The psychologic dimensions, we supposed implied into the development of competence process - for example Self efficacy and Professional commitment - were competence premonitory elements, implied in the professionalisation process too.