Students’ goal orientations in connection with their life scenario

The article is devoted to the study of students’ goal orientations with different types of life scenarios. Students from different areas of professional training took part in the study. As a result, two groups of students differing in the severity of the life scenario were identified; their goal orientations according to the parameters of vital goals, meanings and strategies were studied. It is established that for students with a “non-winner” life scenario the most important goal orientations are affection, love, interpersonal contacts, communication, family life, material success and status, hedonism, external success, professional self-realization, self-development and health; in turn, for students with the life scenario “winner” these are personal growth, self-development, freedom, openness and democracy in society, communication, safety and security, autonomy, health, external success, self-development, professional self-actualization, hedonism.