General Life Attitudes of Student Youth: Their Role in Family and Gender Views

The article examines results of the study of general life attitudes (dispositions) of student youth. It is established that these dispositions form certain types: active rationalists — passive antirationalists; hedonists — anti-hedonists; ego-oriented pragmatists — alter-oriented activists. The degree of prevalence of each of these types among the interviewed young men and women is identified. The paper shows that the general life attitudes correlate with gender and family views. The established connections are not homogenous, monotypic —they are heterogeneous. This means that each of the described syndrome of general attitudes is associated with both the traditionally patriarchal and the modern egalitarian views of today’s youth.