MONETARY ATTITUDES AND MORAL QUALITIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGY-PEDAGOGY AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS

The article presents the results of a comparative study of monetary attitudes and moral characteristics among students in the psychological-pedagogical and technical fields. The relevance of the study is driven by the need to explore the relationship between financial behaviour and moral-ethical aspects of personality in the context of professional socialisation. The following methods were used in the study: D. A. Bayazitova’s and T. A. Lapshova’s scale; A. Furnham’s Money Attitude Scale; the “friend-adviser-2” method for assessing moral choice characteristics; and G. Carlo’s and B. A. Randall’s Prosocial Tendencies Measure. The findings reveal that technical students exhibit a more emotional and pragmatic attitude toward money compared to future psychologists and educators, who show less interest in money while displaying higher levels of moral orientation and empathy. The obtained data highlight the influence of professional training on the formation of the moral component of monetary attitudes, which can be considered when developing differentiated moral education programmes for students in different fields of study