Dynamics of motivational and meaning formations of medical students
https://doi.org/10.23947/2658-7165-2022-5-6-16-30
Abstract
The article is devoted to study the dynamics of motivational and meaning formations in medical university students, since the formation and development of the value-meaning personality structure is a seamless component of the university activity. The study is novel in the exploring of how the specifics in the structure of motivational-meaning formations, motivational structure and life-meaning orientations of medical students changes while three years of studying in university.
The Introduction presents the study’s relevance, which is related to the increasing role and importance of motives for the behavioral attitudes of students in predicting trends in the modern educational process. The analysis of the theoretical approaches to studying the problem of motivational and meaning formations of students at the stage of study at the university is given. The empirical object of the study was 100 students who were examined at the 1st year and then at the end of the 3rd year.
The Methods section lists statistical methods and following methodological tools: the Motivational-Meaning Formations Test authored by Y. M. Orlov and B. A. Sosnovsky, the Life-Meaning Orientations Test by D. A. Leont’ev, the Value Orientations Method by M. Rokich, and Diagnostics of the Motivational Structure of Personality by V. E. Milman.
The Results section shows that transformation in motivational and meaning formations of medical students happens by the 3rd year. There are also differences in the expression of motivational and meaning formations between students of the 1st and 3rd courses.
In the Discussion section the author notes that the statistical significance of differences was revealed in the expression of motivational and meaning formations (needs and satisfaction) among students of a medical university concerning the need for affinity, cognition, and training. It was observed according to the components of the motivational structure and life-meaning orientations among the group of respondents studied in the article.
About the Author
D. N. Nabieva
Rostov State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
student of the Faculty of Pediatrics
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Nabieva D.N. Dynamics of motivational and meaning formations of medical students. Innovative science: psychology, pedagogy, defectology. 2022;5(6):16-30. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.23947/2658-7165-2022-5-6-16-30
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