Features Of A Cognitive Image Of Motherhood Among Student’s Youth

Abstract

Relevance of research is determined by need to create a system of measures of value attitude education to motherhood among modern students and an insufficient research of this phenomenon from psychological point of view. The article presents the results of an empirical research aimed at identifying the structural and content characteristics of cognitive image of motherhood among student’s youth. For this purpose, we used a range of complementary methods of research: theoretical and methodological analysis of literature, psycho-diagnostic methods (the method of semantic differential, developed by Ch. Osgood, a projective technique of "Incomplete Sentences", the Questionnaire "Role Expectations and Claims in Marriage" by A. N. Volkova), methods of applied statistics (the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for one sample, correlation analysis). The study involved 1109 students aged 15 to 22 years. It is established that sex influences the content and hierarchical structure of qualities in the cognitive image of ideal mother among young men and women. Student’s youth in the ideas of ideal mother focuses on the image of his own mother. Among young women, the features of cognitive image of “I am a future mother” differ from the image of ideal mother. The obtained results actualize the importance and necessity of psychological and pedagogical support of preparation of students for marriage and family relations, formation of readiness for parenthood in the educational environment of university.