The article presents the results of the study of psychological readiness to maternity of reproductive-age women, the analysis of its relationship with their socio-psychological set and the semantics of the maternity discourse. The sampling included 47 reproductive-age women, with 16 having a child and 31 childless. The study has revealed that actual maternity has a non-liner relationship with a socio-psychological set aligned with a traditional model of “care”. There are certain differences in group attitudes according to the criteria with focus on individualism, labor, power and money, process and activity results. The study revealed the correlation between psychological readiness to maternity and the semantics of the concepts of “mother”, “child”, “happy woman”, “modern woman”, “seeing oneself in five years”. The semantic assessment of a “mother” concept of women with a low degree of psychological readiness to maternity is more in line with traditional requirements to maternity. The semantics of a subjective view of their future was more optimistic in the group of women with a marked degree of psychological readiness to maternity.

Kyshtymova Irina Mikhailovna, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Professor, Department of Psychology of Education and Personal Development, Irkutsk State University 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: info@creativity.ru

Kamenyuk Alisa Vladimirovna, Graduate Student, Baikal State University, 11, Lenin st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: alisa_38@mail.ru

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