Features of ideal and embodied value orientations of female students receiving economic and pedagogical training

Statement of the problem and the purpose of the article. The formation of a new gender order is a complex, contradictory process, the optimization of which involves research into the foundations of women’s self-determination. This is especially true for the sphere of professional elections. In accordance with this, a comparative study of the basic values of female university students with different profiles of training was carried out. Research methodology. The methodological basis of the study is a systemic-personal approach, which involves considering the individual as an integral dynamic psychological system formed by the interaction of properties and realizing exchange with social systems in accordance with it. When conducting the study, we used the S. Schwartz questionnaire, in which ten basic values are presented in two forms: as abstract ideals and as embodied by the individual in concrete actions. Krasnoyarsk girls (N=411) studying at financial and pedagogical universities took part in the study. The following methods of mathematical processing were used: descriptive statistics and identification of significant differences using Student’s t-test. Research results. These studies indicate that among female students at both financial and pedagogical universities, the levels of effective implementation of all basic values are lower than the levels of their significance. The entire sample of female students is characterized by a low significance of the Tradition value. It was revealed that among girls who chose economic education, the levels of significance of most values are higher than among future teachers. Moreover, the Power value, which in general tends to be the most significant for these female students, has a contrastingly low level of real embodiment, which can be considered as evidence of a kind of value frustration being focused in this area.