ESTIMATE OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE OF FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AND THEIR ADAPTATION TO THE LEARNING PROCESS AT THE UNIVERSITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR DISTRIBUTION INTO GROUPS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COMFORT LEVEL

Abstract

Aim. To analyze the first year students’ psychological adaptation to the learning process at a higher educational establishment using the example of National Research University “MPEI”. Methodology. The author analyzed and summarized the results of psychological tests of freshmen. During the research diagnostic projection techniques and forms of practice psychodiagnostic were used. Results. On the base of the obtained results, the progression of the psychologist’s work during social adaptation practice was described. The author determined the indicators of personal adaptive and communicative potential of students and compared their changes at the beginning and at the end of the first academic semester. Practical implications. Basic trainings have been developed for the formation of personal characteristics of freshmen, necessary for the successful learning and absorption of the student environment of the university and in the future professional career.

Keywords

• psychological adaptation
• personal characteristics
• belonging to types of professions
• orientation on teamwork and personal interest
• communicative potential
• unreacted aggression