Ideas About Parenting Depending On The Type Of Family Self-Determination Of Students

Abstract

The relevance of research of the conditions and factors of formation of ideas about parenting among students is due to a decrease in fertility in Russia and many other countries, the distribution of the phenomena of "delayed parenthood", "child-free", deviant motherhood, etc. The article presents the results of an empirical research, the purpose of which is to identify the characteristics of ideas about parenting (an ideal father / an ideal mother, I am a future father / I a future mother), depending on the type of family self-determination of young men and women. In order to achieve the goal we used a set of complementary methods: theoretical and methodological analysis of literary sources, psycho-diagnostic methods (the method of semantic differential, a projective technique of "Incomplete Sentences", the questionnaire "Role Expectations and Claims in Marriage" by A. N. Volkova), methods of applied statistics. The study involved 1109 students of 15 to 22 years old. The hypothesis was confirmed with the help of correlation analysis that the content and hierarchical structure of qualities in the images of "an ideal father", "an ideal mother", "I am a future father", "I am a future mother" depend on the type of family self-determination of young men and women. The type of family self-determination determines the features of the content and hierarchical structure of ideas about parenting among young men and women. The results will be useful in developing a program of psychological and pedagogical support for the development of responsible, inclusive parenthood among students youth.