Email this article The Nature of Youth's Attitude to Additional Education: the Case Based on the Use of the Semantic Differential Method
- Authors: Bessonova M.O.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 4(861) (2025)
- Pages: 90-99
- Section: Социологические науки
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2500-347X/article/view/372143
- ID: 372143
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Abstract
Additional education is the object of research in various fields of science, including sociology. Statistical data as well as quantitative and qualitative methods can be used to understand the current state of the phenomenon under study. The main aim of the article is to conduct a comparative analysis of the attitude of young people to higher and additional education, as this approach will reveal the advantages of the studied educational trajectory over higher education, those advantages that are reflected in a higher level of satisfaction. For this purpose, the semantic differential method was chosen as one of the most effective methods for studying the motives and needs of young people. The empirical basis was formed by results of the author's survey of Russian youth aged 18-35 (N=1011). Calculations based on the semantic differential methodology revealed a more positive attitude of young people towards various forms of additional education than towards the higher education. More than that, the use of binary scales made it possible to develop and substantiate the typology of respondents in their relation to two educational trajectories. The conducted approbation has shown the effectiveness of using the semantic differential methodology in the study of educational problems.
About the authors
Margarita Olegovna Bessonova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: margobes@mail.ru
Postgraduate Student, Department of Sociology, Institute of International Relations and Social and Political Sciences
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