female students and reflection in care ethics: the case study of guilan university students

Objective: care is a multidimensional concept that has been reflected in the process of modernity. the aim of this study was to investigate care ethics among female students of guilan university.methods: in this research, a qualitative method based on semi-structured interviews and purposive sampling was used. the statistical sample includes 33 students of guilan university. in total, 11 interviewees were interviewed as a group and 22 interviewees as an individual. the analysis method in this research was thematic analysis.results:  in data analysis, twelve basic themes, three organizing themes, and one global theme were obtained. the first type was autonomous girls: these types of girls are less inclined to marriage and maternal roles and less interested in circular motherhood and more inclined to linear time and they believed that a circular mother is a boring role that will reduce their agency. the second was heteronomous girls: these types of female students were in maximal motherhood level because they have known a mother with the semiotic such as sacrifice, kindness, self-sacrifice, altruism, etc. third types of girls were eclectic: this type of female student has both a tendency to linear time (employment and education) and a cyclical time (marriage and motherhood).conclusion:  among the existing types, the ideal form was eclectic ethics in which female students have two ethics of heteronomy and autonomy (semiotic and symbolic).