DOI: 10.25136/2409-7144.2018.6.26628

Abstract: This article examines the motivations for achieving success among the students of Mongolian University of Science and Technology, located in the city of Darkhan, which are significant in monitoring the development of soft skills competencies of the students and improvement in the quality of education. Primary attention is given to the establishment of dominant motivations and their correlation with the overall value worldview. The author analyzes the existing gender differences among the male and female students, hierarchy of motivations for achieving success in the diverse categories of success, as well as the dominant value orientations for achieving success. The article applies the psychological diagnostics of motivations for achieving success among the university students, which was recently proposed by S. A. Pakulina. It determines the nine key categories of success: material success; success as luck; success as recognition; success as power; success as result; personal success; success as mental state; success as overcoming; success as calling. The survey consists of 36 questions that determine the preferences towards each of the category of success, with participation of 225 students. It is established that important for the great majority of students of the School of Technology is the inner personal success: success as a result of personal activity, personal success, success as a mental state, success as overcoming of obstacles, and success as calling. Realization of personal potential and serving the supreme goal also considered important by the respondents. The least attractive motive for successful activity for the majority of student is the external success: control and influence other people, make decisions for them. The acquired results can be used in development and implementation of the modern educational curricula and practice in terms of creation of the effective environments for the career and personal activities.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-7144.2017.11.23166

Abstract: This work examines the hierarchy of motivational orientations for achieving success among the students of humanitarian and technical faculties of Krasnoyarsk universities that are essential for the formation of educational policy aimed at improving the quality of education, as well as monitoring of development of the general cultural competences of the students of various academic disciplines, existing differences and deficits. Major attention is given to the establishment of dominant motivations and their relation to the overall value (optimistic or pessimistic) picture of the world, as well as the defining ethics of behavior and decision-making. The choice of two target audiences is made for verification of hypothesis about the presence of substantial distinction in the strategies for achieving success among the students of humanitarian and engineering disciplines. The article applies the psychological diagnostics of motivations of achieving success among the university students that was recently proposed by the S. A. Pakulina. It determines the nine key categories of success characteristic for the students of modern universities: success as financial realization; success as fortune; success as recognition; success as power; success as achievement; personal success; success as state of mind; success as overcoming; success as calling. The survey contains 36 questions that identify the students’ preferences in each of the nine methodological category of success; 591 students of the three leading universities of Krasnoyarsk (Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafyev, Siberian State University of Science and Techlogies) took part in the research. Regardless of the gender and academic disciplines, the dominant motivations includes the successful achievement of the desired goal, self-realization, and personal content; among the less attractive motives have been determines the exterior success (necessity to rule, influence people, make decisions for others). The common dominant motivation for the majority of respondents (90.2%) is the internalized success, which includes the five types of success: achievement, personal success, state of mind, overcoming obstacles, recognition. The author establish the link between such orientation with the high level of optimism among the students of current generation and their successfulness in education. The acquired results can be valuable in formulation and implementation of the modern educational curriculums and practices, creation of efficient environments for the professional and personal activities, forecasting the types of social and public activities of the students.

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7144.2015.4.15047

Abstract: The article analyzes the global challenges and possible responses to them. Discusses the new adaptation mechanisms to global change such as "flexible consciousness", "flexible skills", "flexible cooperation", "flexible / soft power" to resolve the existing global problems. Explores the nature of innovation and the importance of "flexible strength" conducive to its creation. The process of formation of an innovative society as a basis for a new global flexible force, preventing the negative effects of the accelerated development of the non-linear world.