Resilience And Features Of Coping With Difficulties During The Adaptation Period Of First-Year Students

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of adaptation of students to study at a university. The components of resilience – involvement, control, risk-taking, as well as coping strategies of first-year students are studied. The author's view on the concept of "coping behavior of students in the conditions of adaptation to the university" is presented. The features of resilience and coping behavior of students with a low and high level of adaptation to the study group, as well as with a low and high level of adaptation to educational activity are considered. The correlation between the dependence of resilience and coping behavior on the level of adaptation is established. The results of the empirical study allow authors to conclude that coping strategies focused on solving the problem and social distraction, combined with a high level of resilience, help to adapt faster and more effectively to the new conditions of an educational institution and a new team.

The main methods by which the research was carried out are theoretical (analysis, generalization, classification; study of psychological and pedagogical literature); empirical (observation, method of fixing empirical data, method of statistical data processing, testing, as well as interpretation of the inner world of a person). The results of the work may be of interest to teachers, psychologists and used in the framework of psychological counseling of students.