Keyword: «personal development»

Abstract. The article is devoted to the features of the formation and further development of educational and upbringing goals within the framework of the studied disciplines of the natural science cycle. The authors in the article reveal the features of training and education of students, which will allow students to form not only professional competencies, but also high moral values.

The relevance of the study is due to the growing interest in the issues of the meaning of life and value orientations in a dynamic modern world. The aim of the work is to identify the possibilities of diagnosing the value-meaning sphere in an existential context, as well as to compare its features among first-year and third-year students. The study used the LMO, Existenz-Skala, and TEM methods. The results showed that third-year students demonstrate higher scores on the self-distance and responsibility scales, which indicates the development of personal maturity.