Suhareva E.S.
A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF STUDENTS’ WORLDVIEW ATTITUDES
Abstract. Globalization is causing significant changes in people’s religious consciousness, especially among the youth. This study examines worldview attitudes through the prism of linguistic consciousness, defined as a set of images formed and expressed through linguistic means. The research analyzes the differences between religious ideology, which explains the world through transcendent forces, and secular worldviews based on materialism and rational cognition. Worldview formation occurs throughout a person’s life but is most intensive during the period of professional development. The student age is the most sensitive period for worldview formation, associated with intellectual growth, active acquisition of new social roles, development of professional identity, and enhancement of reflexive abilities and self-awareness. Using the associative experiment method, the study reveals the deep content of worldview attitudes and their influence on the perception of value concepts. The results demonstrate significant differences in the worldview paradigms of students from secular and religious universities, reflected in their understanding of reality, sources of knowledge, and value systems. Despite methodological challenges, examining worldviews through linguistic consciousness proves to be an effective approach for identifying stable patterns in world conceptualization. This method allows for the detection of unconscious aspects of worldviews that are difficult to capture through traditional research methods.
Keywords: associative experiment, religious consciousness, secular consciousness, worldview attitudes.