Abstract
The study is aimed at finding indirect information about the student youth’ reproductive intentions and behavior, since conducting mass pools is an expensive and time-consuming process. I propose to use a vision of life as such information, which can be used for educational purposes to develop the soft competencies of strategic planning and time management. The article describes such a study conducted at two universities in the Yekaterinburg metropolis in Russia. The narrative analysis and content analysis of documents were used as the research methods, which were descriptions of an ideal weekday after 10 years. The results of the study made it possible to determine the students’ proportion who integrate children into their vision of life, and the number of children that students would like to have by the age of 30 was also determined. The study confirmed that describing the vision of life in 10 years can provide sufficient information to describe the university students’ reproductive behavior.