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Gender Differences Reflected in Profession-Related Expectations Displayed by Students with Various Levels of Physical Training and Culture // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2002. Issue 3 (31). P. 55-57

962 male and female students of Tomsk State University, aged between 17 and 21, of various physical aptitude and health levels, were interviewed and underwent a psychological survey. The conducted research revealed the role of the conditions of gender socialization in forming professional expectations of the interviewees. St was proved that physical aptitude and health for forming a lifestyle and professional self-determination were more important for male students than for female ones. The conditions of socialization provided by the parents' family and the process of physical education, in which the role of the father is indispensable, play the principal role in forming the physical culture of a personality.

Adolescent Reproductive Behavior as an Object of the Psychological Investigation // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2002. Issue 3 (31). P. 67-70

During the last ten years the development of demographic processes in Russia have been characterized by such tendencies as wide spreading of sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers, increasing adolescent pregnancy, out-of-wedlock chiidbirths and abortions. In this connection the investigation of the psychological mechanisms of adolescent reproductive behavior formation is actual and timely Present-day research methods, such as questionnaires and surveys, need to be reviewed. The obtained data will help in identifying directions of preventive and rehabilitative measures on the state level. In this article the importance of developing a genderrearing educational program for adolescents with the regard for ethnocultural traditions of our society is emphasized and possible trends of further investigation are marked.

The Young Generation of Russia: Peculiarities of Gender Transformations of Male and Female // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2005. Issue 1 (45). P. 131-134

The paper deals with the results of investigating the character of gender transformations of a personality of Russian young men and women. The methodological approach is close to the notion of gender personality in English literature when under gender personality the combination oh individual characteristics is meant describing a person as femine, masculine, androgine or non-differential (indefinite) type by psychological qualities and preferable patterns of sex-role behavior. Investigation included 310 students, namely: 140 men and 170 young girls aged 17 – 22. It is shown that in conditions of the up-to-date Russian society there exist the processes of learning gender models and behavior patterns by youth to be traditionally peculiar to opposite sex and have a high manifestation of femine qualities. In contrast, young men acquiring femine features lose the part of their masculine qualities.