Lements

Identificator

EDN: SSYSJD ; УДК: 37.015.3

Authors

Lements Tatiana Alexandrovna, postgraduate student of the Department of Educational Psychology, Moscow State Pedagogical University. Russia, Moscow. ORCID: 0000-0002-5223-6117. E-mail: alvitana26@gmail.com

Journal

HERALD OF VYATKA STATE UNIVERSITY №2 (156), 2025

Section

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pages

117-125

Abstract

In this article, the problem of the teacher's value-semantic sphere is addressed from the perspective of representation the teacher's existential meanings in their professional activities. The purpose of this article is to present the results of a theoretical study of the representation of existential meanings in the teacher's experience of their profession as a personally significant mission. The article examines the process of a person's choice of a teaching profession, which is influenced by a number of factors related to their life and existential experience. This choice is made from their central existential mode and is an act of "self-care". Possible groups of existential meanings acquired and implemented by teachers in their profession are formulated. The theoretical study used the following methods: analysis, synthesis, and generalization. As a result of a theoretical study of the representation of existential meanings in a teacher's experience of their profession as a personally significant mission, key existential meanings were identified that are realized by a teacher in the process of their professional activity and determine their strategy of professional self-actualization. The article also provides conclusions about the characteristics of the central personality modus of people who choose a teaching profession from the perspective of "self-care", the content of the existential meanings of teachers who live their profession as a personally significant mission and determine their professional self-actualization strategy accordingly. The results of the theoretical study allow us to identify further relevant research perspectives (including empirical ones) of the existential meanings of teachers who chose their profession in accordance with the central mode of their personality as an act of "self-care" and living it (profession) as a personally significant mission, realizing their existential meanings through it and professionally self-actualizing in it.

Keywords

existential meanings teacher teaching profession personally significant mission "self-care" mode of personality self-actualization

Recieved

13.10.2025

Published

14.04.2026

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