The paper is devoted to the crisis of life purpose among students who are in their 

ănal  year  at  university  and  starting  their  professional  activity. The  authors  show 

what place this crisis takes in forming life-purpose conceptions of young people, 

and also speak about the possibilities of the university education environment for 

this formation. The paper describes the features and factors of manifestation of the 

life-purpose crisis among ănal-year students. The authors present the results of the 

study on the crisis symptoms using a set of techniques and their interpretation. The 

study used the authors’ methodology for determining a subjective feeling of being 

in crisis by ănal-year students. The authors show that it is more difăcult for young 

people with crisis symptoms to independently understand their own life-meaning 

orientations; they often experience difăculties with ănding a job and mastering their 

professions.

Key  words:  crisis  of  life  purpose,  life-purpose  conception,  ănal-year  students, 

educational activity, professional formation, crisis of the beginning of professional 

activity.

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