Characteristic Features of the Value-Semantic Sphere of Students with Various Attitudes to Past Experience

Don State Technical University, Gagarin sq., 1, 344003 Rostov-on-Don, Russia

^* Corresponding author: zhukova-teatr@yandex.ru

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the assessment of past experience in connection with the peculiarities of the value-semantic sphere of students aged 19 to 21 years. It presents a comparative analysis of the results of the study of students of the Faculty of Psychology with various attitudes to past experience, by dividing them into two groups with a positive and neutral-negative assessment of past experience. The analysis is carried out on the basis of a number of techniques that allow one to see the substantive aspects of the value-semantic and motivational spheres of students. The study of value orientations in groups was carried out, differences in the level of significance of the studied values for the respondents were revealed. The study of terminal values showed that a happy family life is the main one for the group with a positive attitude to the past, while for the second group health, love and self-confidence are more important. With regard to instrumental values, it was revealed that a group with a positive assessment of the past considers responsibility as the most important, while the other emphasizes honesty. It was found out that groups with a positive attitude to past experience are distinguished by greater satisfaction with the results of life in the present period of time, meaningful life process and a higher level of motivation.