Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2015 8) 516-526 ~ ~ ~ УДК 159.9:331.101.3 Structural, Level and Typological Properties of the Psychological Aspect of Professional Responsibility of Pharmaceutical Industry Workers Natalia V. Lukyanchenko* and Irina A. Tkachenko Siberian State Technological University 82 Mira, Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia Received 17.12.2014, received in revised form 20.01.2015, accepted 30.01.2015 The present article determines the timeliness of studying the psychological aspect of professional responsibility. <...> It outlines its structural components: functional component including personal characteristics for actualization of the responsibility and refl ective-axiological component, which stands for the understanding of responsibility and its subjective value basis by the person. <...> It presents the results of the research, carried out on the basis of pharmaceutical industry. <...> The research describes the following levels of professional responsibility development: operational, social and personal. <...> It states that the formedness of the personal level of professional responsibility development decreases the manifestation of the features, distinctive on the operational and social levels. <...> The present article outlines the typological groups of respondents, different from each other in the distinctive features of the psychological aspect of professional responsibility. <...> It demonstrates that the highest functional indicators of professional responsibility are manifested by the group with the personal level of professional responsibility development, while the lowest belong to those with the operational level. <...> Keywords: professional responsibility, functional, refl ective-axiological components of the psychological aspect of responsibility, emotional self-regulation, volitional self-control, internality, development levels of professional responsibility. <...> Introduction There is no doubt that in the modern society with its sophisticated production technologies, high level of labour differentiation and close bonds between the activities of various fi elds, the professional responsibility problem is highly urgent. <...> As pointed out by S.L. Rubinstein, being intended for achievement of a certain result, labour needs planning and control, a priori including, therefore, a set of certain obligations and requiring inner discipline Natalia V. Lukyanchenko and Irina A. Tkachenko. <...> Structural, Level and Typological Properties of the Psychological… [23]. <...> According to V.D. Shadrikov, despite the fact that the social signifi cance of activity and its personal meaning may not match, the person shall realize the consequences of their actions for the society, which assumes the presence of responsibility [28]. <...> Discussion A.P. Chirkov <...>