Features of the Value-Semantic Sphere of Students in the Period of Study at the University

Abstract

The article presents the results of an empirical study, the main tasks of which were to identify the features of the value-semantic sphere among students studying at the law faculty and students studying at the faculty of psychology. The sample consisted of 128 students studying at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Legal Psychology. The hypotheses of the research were made by the assumption that, firstly, there are statistically significant differences in the system of life meanings, life-span and career orientations, in the leading values of law students and students of the psychology department, and, secondly, there is an interconnection of life-meaning orientations with educational motivation of students of law and psychological faculties. The authors conducted a brief analysis of the characteristics of the formation of the value-semantic sphere of the personality during the period of study at the university. The results obtained in the study can be used when conducting individual psychological counseling with students, when planning and conducting trainings aimed at the formation of students' professional self-awareness.