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Student age is a sensory age for the formation of world outlook and life goals, realisation of responsibility for one's life. The search for answers to these questions contributes not only to the formation of an adequate assessment of reality, understanding and awareness of the meaning of life, but also to the formation of constructive ways of solving life problems, the formation of their own special strategies of behaviour. The aim of the work is to establish the correlation between meaning-life orientations and coping strategies of female students of different age groups. The study was conducted on a sample of female students of Tolstoy State Pedagogical University (n=69) aged from 18 to 24 years, studying at different courses of bachelor's and master's degrees. As diagnostic tools we used the D. Leontiev's SZHO test and the questionnaire ‘Ways of coping behaviour’ (WSQ) by R. Lazarus. Correlation analysis showed strong direct correlations between the goals, process and performance of life, the general indicator of life meaningfulness and planning strategy. Strong inverse correlations were found between the index of life performance and the strategies of distancing and escape/avoidance. The study showed that the values of life meaningfulness of female students are higher the older in age the respondents are. Meaning-life orientations influence the choice of coping strategies: for respondents in the age group (≤21) avoidance-type coping strategies, i.e. unproductive strategies, are more characteristic, whereas for subjects in the age group (≥22) problemoriented coping is the most typical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Student age is sensitive for the formation of a worldview and life goals, awareness of responsibility for one's life. The search for answers to these questions contributes to the formation of an adequate assessment of reality, understanding and awareness of the meaning of life. The purpose of the article is to determine the features of meaningful life orientations among female students of different ages. The study was conducted on a sample of female students (n=69) aged 18 to 24 years. Leontiev's SJO test was used as diagnostic tools. The primary data of the study were processed using the methods of mathematical statistics. The study showed that the structural components of meaningful life orientations in different age groups have different levels of severity. The research materials can be used in the work of the psychological service of an educational organization in order to develop the value-semantic sphere of modern youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]