THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND VALUE ORIENTATIONS

Background. The paper presents the results of correlation analysis of students’ perception of quality of life and value orientations. The increase of the quality of life level is an important social problem. Young people look forward to live their lives in a good quality. To solve such a problem, it is required to analyze the quality of life in a scientific way, to understand how modern youth interprets this phenomenon, and to seek factors influencing the evaluation of life as full of quality. Purpose: to analyze the students’ perception of quality of life, to identify important indicators of quality of life, the degree of their realization at the current stage of life, to study their correlation with value orientations. Materials and methods: the content-analysis of essays on the indicators of quality of life, the questionnaire for the indicators of quality of life realization, Schwartz Value Survey. As a statistical method for the data analysis, the Spearman correlation coefficient was used. Results. For young people, the quality of life is consisted of interpersonal relationships, financial stability, conditions for self-realization and personal growth, a positive self-conception, the ecology and health state, possibilities for entertainment. Career development and freedom to act and select are of less importance. Within the quality of life, young people evaluate interpersonal relationships as of high satisfaction, but financial stability and career development are at low rate. The quality of life on interpersonal relationships indicator is highly rated by young people with explicit value of universalism, it has low rate at students with values of hedonism and power. Conformity students highly evaluate their quality of life on the health, career and positive self-conception indicators. Young people with explicit benevolence value have low rates on the quality of life by financial stability. EDN: UUQNCU