LIFE PURPOSE ORIENTATIONS, COPING STRATEGIES AND SATISFACTION WITH LIFE IN STUDENTS AS A PROBLEM OF PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY

Yashchenko E.

doi:10.14529/jpps210109

E. F. Yashchenko Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University (9 Moskovsky Ave., Saint Petersburg, 190031, Russia) http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5172-9385 elfed58@mail.ru

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14529/jpps210109

Keywords: life purpose orientations, coping strategies, coping behavior, social situation, difficult life situation, life satisfaction, happiness, personal qualities, students, secure environment

Abstract

Abstract. The study was conducted just before the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in our country. The work defines the level of mindfulness, satisfaction with life, and happiness in university students. Life purpose orientations and coping strategies of students with high and low levels of satisfaction with life are shown. Aim. The paper aims to determine the features of life purpose orientations, coping strategies and satisfaction with life in the students of a transport university. Materials and methods. 66 university students were examined, the average age was 19.9 years, 26 males and 37 females. The following methods were used: “Purpose-in-Life Orientations” (SZHO) by D. Leontiev; Coping test by R. Lazarus; Life Satisfaction by E. Diner; Oxford Happiness Questionnaire by M. Argyle. Results for interpretation were obtained by conducting Student's t-test and Pearson correlation analysis using the SPSS v. 22.0 statistical program package. Results. University students have an average level of mindfulness, satisfaction with life, happiness, which characterizes the living and learning environment as environmentally sound and safe. Significant differences were found between life purpose orientations, coping strategies and happiness, as well as differences between students with high and low levels of life satisfaction. Discussion. The largest number of correlations in both groups was found between life purpose orientations and life satisfaction. In students with a low level of life satisfaction, the result of life is associated with coping planning, in students with a high level – with the search for social support, which, in our opinion, is a source of personal potential, personal development and quality of life. Conclusion. Differences and relationships between life purpose orientations, coping strategies and happiness among transport university students with a high and low level of life satisfaction are determined.

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Author Biography

E. F. Yashchenko , Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University (9 Moskovsky Ave., Saint Petersburg, 190031, Russia)

Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Applied Psychology

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