The Value-Meaning Correlatives Of Coping Behavior: Comparative Research Of Master's Students

Abstract

The topic of this article is important in view of increasing academic mobility which requires the understanding of both general and culture specific resources of stress-coping for engaging in a master's degree program. The main goal of the article is to identify and compare value-meaning correlatives between master's students from Kazakhstan and Tatarstan (Russia). With the use of the experimental method the parameters of the personal value-meaning sphere were identified (meaningfulness of life, hierarchy of values, acting on one's values) along with the coping strategies of master's students. The findings show that the meaningfulness of life directly relates to task-orientated coping and inversely relates to emotion-orientated in both student groups however in case with students from Kazakhstan it directly relates to the strategy of social diversion. For all master's students avoidance-orientated coping was most related to values.