Conflicts in the life of undergraduates: an empirical gender review

Abstract

The issues of harmonious or disharmonious life activities of young undergraduates, the future Russian technical intelligentsia, are of particular interest to the external and internal public, since the "mental struggle for intellectual youth" has become actualized. Conflict among educated youth is becoming one of the "markers" of socio–political sentiments. The object of the study is young people with the status of undergraduates. The subject is conflicts of undergraduates. The period of study in the master's degree, in our opinion, is a crucial stage for an individual, which is associated not only with the professional status growth of the applicant, but also with the final civil and patriotic self-determination of the individual, with a fundamental decision of his material and family situation in society. The life of modern youth, combining graduate studies, work and family role responsibility, is accompanied by various conflicts. Research methods: long–term author's sociological surveys of university students, bachelors, undergraduates in long-term dynamics (for 1998, 2018, 2021, 2022). A traditional questionnaire was conducted by groups, continuous surveys of male and female respondents of full-time education, aged 18-30 years (N= 200-400). The novelty is to identify conflict manifestations in the undergraduate environment in the conditions of the beginning of the special military operation and compare it with previous trends. Hypothesis: typical youth conflicts persist in the life of undergraduates, but new situational contradictions also appear. Among the conflict problems faced by undergraduates in their daily activities, the following were noted: combining work and study; a decrease in the material standards of living and the search for earnings; issues related to scientific research and publications. There are new problems in the list: post-teen phobias for the well-being and life of loved ones; military reports from Donbass and strained international relations with NATO. Typical causes of family conflicts (parents–children) have been empirically identified: "getting into the network" of addictions; material and household specifics; deviant–delinquent situations; leisure–intergender confrontations - conflicts.