Dynamics of Existential Motivations Among Women Emigrated from Russia to Europe due to Marriage

In a modern world, where perspective of choosing the living space become more and more open, the topic of influence of a new culture on a migrant from the point of view of existential fulfillment has become increasingly relevant. In this thesis we investigate particularities of experience of the dynamic of existential motivations among women emigrated from Russia to Europe due to marriage. The empirical study consists of few parts. For the qualitative study we collected semistructured in-depth interviews and used phenomenological method of analysis of P. Colaizzi to explore and describe the main themes that respondents raised from their experience from the point of view of perceiving themselves and the world around in the situation before and after emigration. We also undertook the frequency analysis to compare dynamic of changes of existential motivations. For the quantitative study we provided analysis of mean values of the level of existential fulfillment for two independent samples. One sample is made up of respondents who are in the inter-ethic marriage and who are living in one of the European country (73 respondents). Another sample is made up of respondents who are in mono-national marriage and are living in Russia (58 respondents). The main finding of our study is the change in experience basics of the first fundamental motivation which are protection, space and support. This finding was approved on all levels of the study. Another important finding is the increase of the level of closeness to yourself and the degree of contact with yourself which link with the themes of the third fundamental motivation. In this work we provided a detailed description about stages and procedure of analysis, interpretations and description of final results and pointed out on the limits of the study and gave recommendations for the future research in this scientific field. Key words: emigration, inter-ethnic marriage, Europe, existential analysis, existential fulfillment.