Strategies of Self-Improvement for Students with Different Agency Levels

2023

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DOI 10.51847/4cityrcqsn
Data confidence 70 medium
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Abstract

The relevance of the issue is due to the importance of studying the psychological mechanisms and factors of personal self-development. The goal of this research was to identify factors of students' choice of self-improvement strategies: acquisition, rejection, transformation, and restriction, depending on the students’ agency levels. Our study involved students from several universities in Russia and Kazakhstan, with a total of 271 people aged 17 to 27, mostly female, with an average a