Study of the features of the intuition of medical university students by the method of narrative
Intuition as a psychological phenomenon is difficult to study due to retrospective awareness of the result and the influence of cognitive and motivational distortions. In this paper it is shown that the difficulties of research of intuition can act as their advantages, using a contextual approach, since the subject is always inside the objective context of life under the influence of their needs, meanings, values, leading activities; therefore, the study used a relatively homogeneous sample on these parameters. The aim of the study was to explore the intuition by a narrative method and to identify gender peculiarities of intuition. There were received stories about their own experience of experiencing intuition in a distant way, through e-mail correspondence with 157 respondents, students of higher educational institutions (109 girls and 48 boys), aged 18 to 24 years. The most presented in the narratives parameters of intuition in the whole group of students participating in the study are described. Gender differences in the parameters of intuition in the narratives of males and females are described. It is shown that the evaluation of intuition within the narrative approach is possible and productive; and the phenomenology of intuition is associated with the life contexts and gender characteristics of respondents.