Impact of meaningful orientations on life satisfaction

The article examines life satisfaction among people with different life-meaning orientations, taking into account their gender. The aim of the article is to study the impact of changes in social gender expectations on the semantic sphere of the individual, as well as on the sphere of life satisfaction. In the course of the work, a study was carried out on the influence of life-meaning orientations and life strategies on life satisfaction in men and women, and the correspondence of these life-meaning orientations and life strategies to generally accepted in modern society gender expectations was analyzed. As a result of the study, it was revealed that men experience a sense of satisfaction if their goals and values correspond to those traits that correspond to the prescribed by anonymous public authority image of masculinity. In the semantic sphere, women show masculine traits to the same extent as men, but the realization of such meanings either does not have any effect on their sense of satisfaction, or this influence turns out to be negative. Based on the study, it was concluded that changes in gender expectations have an impact on the semantic sphere of the personality of women, but were not deep enough to affect the sphere of life satisfaction. The results of the study allow us to take a fresh look at the psychological conditions in the process of social values transformation and can be used in psychological counseling and psychotherapy, focusing the attention of the consultant on the semantic sphere.