Life-purpose orientations and coping strategies of girls of different student ages


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Student age is sensitive for the formation of a worldview and life goals, awareness of responsibility for one’s life. Their search contributes both to the formation of an appropriate assessment of reality, understanding, and awareness of the life purpose and to the formation of constructive ways to solve life problems, one’s special behavior strategies. The paper aims at the establishing the correlation of the life-purpose orientations and coping strategies of female students of different age groups. The author carried out the study on a sample group represented by female students of different undergraduate and graduate courses of Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University (n=69) aged 18 to 24. The PIL test by D.A. Leontiev and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ) by R. Lazarus were used as the diagnostic tools. The correlation analysis showed the presence of strong direct correlations between goals, the life process and life performance, the life meaningfulness general indicator and planning strategy. The study identified strong inverse correlations between life performance indicator and the distancing and escape/avoidance strategies. The study showed that the values of life awareness of female students are the higher, the older the respondents are. Life-purpose orientations influence the choice of coping strategies: for the (≤21) age group respondents, avoiding-type coping strategies, i. e., unproductive strategies, are more characteristic, while for the (≥22) age group, problem-oriented coping is the most typical.

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Tatiana Ivanovna Kulikova

Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, Tula

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Email: tativkul@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8655-1599

PhD (Psychology), Associate Professor, assistant professor of Chair “Psychology and Pedagogy”

Russian Federation

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