Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem (Nov 2013)
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SELF-FULFILLMENT OF STUDENTS IN COLLEGE AND THEIR MOTIVATIONAL AND ADJUSTMENT CHARACTERISTICS
Abstract
A productive college education must ensure the process of self-fulfillment of an individual’s personality in the educational system and encourage an increase in the basic abilities of a student as a subject of their learning and professional activities.The article states that the research results on the personal organization of students is connected to the performance of their self-fulfillment in the process of the academic studies. The innovation of the research is associated with the fact that self-fulfillment during the learning period is developed as a sociological category that reflects the process of socializing and depends on the structure and essence of the educational and social environment.The aim of the research is to discover, through empirical method, the features under consideration in the process of the students’ fulfillment through their personal characteristics: needs and motivations, purposes, features of self-attitude and orientations in connection with the purpose of life.The research methods: piloting questionnaires, observation, interviews, focus groups, sociological surveys (questionnaires), and complex sociological and psychological tests (use of battery of tests and questionnaires). Statistical methods: analysis of the authenticity of differences and correlational analysis.The research results show that the connection presence was established between the students’ self-fulfillment in college, their ambition to learn, their sense of wholeness, consistency of their attitude and a purpose-oriented way of life.The area for use of the results: the modernization of college studies based on the principle of the self-fulfillment by the young students in the learning process.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-8-47
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