Linguistic Analysis of Students' Opinions about their Self-realization and Psychological Well-being in University Education

Abstract

The article examines students' semantic significant representations about self-realization as factor of their psychological well-being in the process of education. Described are the results of study of students' notions about possibilities of their self-realization in university environment. The research work was built on the basis of the thesaurus analysis method, which makes it possible to identify stable semantic constructions in students' stories about the conditions for their self-realization in education. Using this method, the authors disclose semantic indicators of students' self-realization within the framework of three key thesauri: thesaurus of the readiness to self-realization; thesaurus of the self-realization measures and actions; thesaurus of self-realization activators. In accordance with the obtained data, the following three main narrative dominants of students' self-realization and psychological well-being were determined, such as: ego-inclusion in the learning process, comprehensive deployment of personal capacities, and social acceptance in the university community. Given these dominants as a criteria basis, the authors carry out a special survey of students and reveal the degree of their self-realization, reflecting the level of their psychological well-being in university training.