Abstract
The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of self-assessment of ambition of students - representatives of Y and Z generations. The aim of the study was to identify the similarities and differences in self-esteem of ambition and the degree of its expression among young people of different generations. A cross-sectional survey of young people's ambition was conducted in 2009 (Gen Y youth) and 2020 (Gen Z youth). The study involved 200 young people aged 18-22: 106 young people of generation Y and 94 young people of generation Z. To study ambition, the “Ambition” questionnaire (O.V. Barsukova) was used. Most of the young people of generation Y assess themselves as ambitious or rather ambitious people (70.42%), slightly more than a quarter of students (28.17%) consider themselves to be un-ambitious people or rather un-ambitious than ambitious people. The minimum number of students found it difficult to assess themselves (1.41%). Most of the young people of generation Y rate their ambition as high (45.07%), about a third of them - as moderate (30.99%), about a quarter of them - as low (23.94%). The majority of young people of generation Z (70.22%) consider themselves ambitious people or rather ambitious than un-ambitious people, about a third of them (29.79%) consider themselves un-ambitious people or rather un-ambitious than ambitious people. There were no young people who found it difficult to assess themselves. Most of the young people of generation Z rate their ambition as moderate (51.06%), just over a third of them - as high (36.17%), the minimum number - as low (12.77%). There were no significant differences in the self-esteem of ambition and in the degree of its expression among young people belonging to different generations.
Highlights
Psychological research of representatives of different generations - X, Y and Z - is one of the new areas of research
A study of the severity of ambition among young people of generation Y yielded the following results: Most of the young people who consider themselves ambitious rate their ambition as high (80.00%), the fifth part of these young people think that their ambition is moderate, average (20.00%)
More than half of the young people who consider themselves to be rather un-ambitious than ambitious rate their ambition as low (69.23%), about a third of them as moderate (30.77%)
Summary
Psychological research of representatives of different generations - X, Y and Z - is one of the new areas of research. Representatives of one generation have a common, identical set of some characteristics, due, first of all, to the general social situation of life. This can be, for example, as shown in the studies of V.I. This can be, for example, as shown in the studies of V.I Pischik and her colleagues, type of economic mentality, professional mobility of representatives of different generations [2, 3]. Attention is paid to the study of the expectations of representatives of generation Z from their future work [4]. These authors analyze the impact of mobile addiction on the social and personal life of generation Z [5]. Schenarts is dedicated to finding answers to the following questions: How to educate members of generation Z? What characteristics make generation Z different from previous generations? [6]
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