Features of semantic regulation of teachers in conditions of information uncertainty

ABSTRACT

Introduction. Meaningful orientations and self-reflection are important indicators of the regulation of personal meanings. A person living in a modern, rapidly changing society does not fully manage his life due to the action of various uncertainties. The COVID-19 pandemic that began in early 2020 swept the world and is considered a global uncertainty factor. The increased uncertainty of life with the onset of the pandemic seems to be an additional stress factor. The novelty of the study lies in obtaining empirical data on the gender characteristics of the semantic regulation of teachers in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The purpose of the article is to present the results of an empirical study of differences in life-meaning orientations and self-reflection among teachers before and during the pandemic,Methods . The study was conducted among female teachers of secondary schools in the Rostov region in March 2017 (n = 53) and in October 2020 (n = 43), i.e. before and during the pandemic, which can be considered a different effect of uncertainty in life . The battery of psychodiagnostic tests included the “Meaningful Orientations” test according to D. A. Leontiev and the self-reflection questionnaire according to I. A. Stetsenko. Results . An increase during the pandemic was found for all averages of both tests compared to the pre-pandemic values. Differences in all parameters have a statistically significant significance, identified on the basis of the Mann-Whitney test. The discussion of the results. In the conducted empirical study, it was found that the pandemic for the surveyed acmeologically homogeneous category of female teachers can be considered as a surmountable stress factor. As a result of the impact of such information uncertainty, a constructive restructuring of the processes of semantic regulation and psychological adaptation took place, which led to an increase in the level of meaningfulness of life orientations and self-reflection among the respondents. © 2022, Russsian Psychological Society. All rights reserved.