AXIOLOGICAL DEFINITENESS OF THE PROBLEM OF FORMING THE STUDENT'S HEALTH IN THE TERMS OF MODERN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

The article provides an insight into the empirical study to have been conducted on the problem of axiological definiteness to the formation of a healthy lifestyle of students in the settings of modern tertiary education. It reveals the complex nature of the hierarchy of values of modern students, specifics of formation of their value orientations. The article discovers that physical, material, intellectual, moral values are of the greatest importance for students of the modern universities while cultural and social values are of the least significance and sport along with physical development are among the values of the physically-aimed group of values. It has been elucidated that the attitude towards the values of a healthy lifestyle gains approval by most students, and this attitude is combined with the awareness of the students’ lack of knowledge, skills and abilities to organize their life on the basis of a healthy lifestyle principles. The article provides proofs that on the empirically constructed scale of factors that determine the choice of respondents for rational behaviours, the «desire to feel fullness and joy of life», «opportunities of self-realization in the profession», «achievement of material well-being» occupy the leading rank positions. The method used for study the hierarchy of students’ values was interviewing with using a questionnaire «My Life Values» [5, 413], which the respondents (112 persons) were ordered to fill in. The questionnaire represents the M. Rokich methodology based on the ranking of a number of values by the respondents and modified by the author. A calculation after Spierman’s rank correlation coefficient was used as a ground for the analysis an occurrence and a level of an appearance of correlation between the «Bodily values» issue data and other values of future teachers. The choice of the statistical criterion was based on the data type (ordinal numeral) and the sample type (independent.) It reveals the degree of understanding (awareness of) the importance of forming, preserving and strengthening health by the students for achieving success in their studies (intellectual sphere), selfrealization in their future career. Verification of the performed theoretical generalizations and the experimental study detected the necessity of the development of scientific and methodological foundations of health of the youth in university study