To the Problem of Competitive Personality Concept

The problem of making a competitive personality is particularly relevant to contemporary psychology since this factor is a determinative resource for competitiveness of the state. In modern psychological models the content of competitive personality has been revealed by means of a historically established and instilled in consciousness economic model wherein the competition is a stimulus for development, thus reducing the psychological content of the concept. It is represented by the ability to develop activity at one's own initiative which ensures the generation and introduction of innovations and, in its turn, enables to anticipate and run ahead of the competition requirements.