Characteristics of the ultimate meanings and students’ life-purpose orientations depending on the gender

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия. Серия Акмеология образования: Психология развития

Yulia M. Perevozkina¹  Sergei B. Perevozkin¹ 

[1] Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, 28Vilyuyskaya St., Novosibirsk630126, Russia;

关键词: meaning;    ultimate meanings;    educational process;    life-purpose orientations;    gender;    students;   

DOI  :  10.18500/2304-9790-2021-10-2-129-138

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Therelevanceofthestudyisconditionedbyrapidtransitiontodigitalformsofeducation,whichisassociatedwiththepandemic. Students have changed the way they interact with teachers and with each other, which constantly leads to transformation of personal meanings, values, rethinking of their purpose and role in the educational process. The purpose of the study, presented in the article, is to investigate unusual characteristics of the semantic sphere regarding male and female students’ academic activity. Hypothesis: semantic content of academic activity differsinmaleandfemalestudents.Participantsarefirst-yearfull-timestudents,studyingattheFacultyofPsychology,FacultyofEngineeringandEconomicsandFacultyofHumanResourcesManagement(N=102,agedfrom18to22years,52participantsarefemalestudentsand50 participants are male students). The participants were tested using Life-Purpose Orientations Test (D. A. Leontiev) and the Ultimate Meanings Technique (D. A. Leontiev). Based on the latter methodology, the entire sample was divided into five groups depending on the presence of a certain meaning. The conjugation of ultimate meanings and gender was determined using φ-Pearson criterion, while MANOVA criterion helped to investigate differencesinlife-purposeorientationsdependingongenderandultimatemeanings.Weestablisheddifferentiationwithinultimatemeaningsineducation depending on gender of a student: men are focused on respect and safety, while women are focused on getting pleasure and gaining confidence. We found that women connect getting pleasure and gaining confidence while learning with monitoring their lives, whereas male students connect it with the ultimate meanings of security and respect, satisfaction with their own lives and the feeling of being able to influence their life. The obtained results can help to draw the following conclusion: development of the individual system of life-purpose orientations and its functioning in the educational situation are interconnected with gender as one of the most essential biosocial characteristics of an individual.

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