The article presents a study of the development of professionally important personal qualities of undergraduate students of the psychological and pedagogical direction in the conditions of emergency remote teaching (ERT). A study with the participation of 140 master’s students (70 in 2018– 2019, 70 in 2020–2021) and using the Emotional Response Scale of A. Mehrabyan and N. Epstein, the test of communication skills of L. Mikhelson, methods of professional identity research (MIPI) and personal identity (MILES) L. B. Schneider confirmed the assumption that empathy develops intensively at the beginning of training, both in full-time and in distance learning, but the development of communicative competence is difficult compared to full-time training. In contrast to the conditions of full-time study, with emergency remote teaching, the status of diffuse professional identity is common for students of both courses, and the achieved professional identity is much less common than for full-time students. Among first-year students, the most common is the status of diffuse personal identity, among second-year students-the status of a moratorium. The limitations of the obtained conclusions are discussed and the prospects for further research are shown.