Subjective assessment of social status and socio-psychological attitudes of student youth

Don State Technical University, 344003, Gagarin Square, 1, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: suroedova@mail.ru

Abstract

The problem of accompanying talented youth is closely related to the phenomenon of social status, including the individual psychological characteristics of the perception of their own social status. This article examines the quantitative characteristics of the subjective assessment of the real and ideal social status by students of different levels of education, as well as the relationship between socio-psychological attitudes and the semantic space of the social status of student youth. The study involved 169 students aged 16 to 47 years (M = 20.6, SD = 4.4 (56.4% men). Methods were used: semantic differential, survey - methodology for diagnosing socio-psychological attitudes of personality by Potemkina O.F., World assumptions scale (WAS) R. Janoff-Bulman (adapted and re-standardized by Padun M.A., Kotelnikova A.V.); statistical methods. The study established differences in factor Evaluation, factor Potency and factor Activity, real and ideal status of students at different levels of education, differences in the socio-psychological attitudes of students at different levels of education, as well as the relationship of subjective assessment of real and ideal social status with socio-psychological attitudes. Research prospects are aimed at studying the content characteristics of the subjective assessment of the real and ideal social status of student youth.