INTERRELATION OF VALUE ORIENTATIONS AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE BIRTH OF CHILDREN AMONG GIRLS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF A METROPOLIS)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2022-2-1103
Abstract
Aim. Study of the value orientations of girls with different types of social attitudes towards having children.
Methodology. The study used Value Orientations methodology of M. Rokeach, Likert Total Rating Scale and the author's instant diagnostics methodology of social attitudes towards childbearing. Correlation analysis and Student's T-test were used to analyse the data.
Results. The peculiarities of value orientations of girls with different types of social attitudes towards having children were identified, as well as the place of the value "having children" in the general value system, and the peculiarities of its relationship with other values.
Research implications. The study contributes to the study of value orientations as a psychological determinant of social attitudes towards childbearing. The data obtained can form the basis for the development of a psychological model of social attitudes towards childbearing, in order to realise the possibility of its psychological correction and the formation of positive attitudes towards childbearing and parenthood.
About the Authors
E. S. ChizhikovaRussian Federation
External Postgraduate Student, Department of Social Psychology, Moscow Region State University
N. S. Kramarenko
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Psychology), Assoc. Prof., Prof, Department of General and Educational Psychology, Moscow Region State University
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