Published 2024-12-30
Keywords
- psychological adaptation, self-realization of students, self-development of personality, affirmation in the profession, adaptive orientation.
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Copyright (c) 2025 Roman Pavelkiv, Volodymyr Anushkevych, Lyudmyla Vovkochyn, Andrii Tytovych, Oleksandra Bykova

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Abstract
The article reveals the content clarifies the essence of the concept of adaptation, and identifies the directions of adaptation, levels, types, and types of psychological adaptation. The article aims to show the important role of psychological adaptation in the process of self-realization of students of higher educational institutions. The methodological principles of the study are: leading provisions of the theory of scientific knowledge; general scientific principles of historicism, systematics, and scientificity; conceptual provisions of pedagogical, psychological, and sociological sciences; ideas of experience based on the synchronous study of pedagogical, socio-cultural and economic phenomena; philosophical and pedagogical ideas of the development of modern education. An experimental study conducted among first-year students to determine anxiety and levels of their adaptation at the ascertaining stage showed the need to implement a developmental program for reducing anxiety during the adaptation period, developed for first-year students of higher educational institutions. As a result of the experiment, the study of the control stage makes it possible to say that thanks to the introduction of developmental activities in the EG, which took place in the form of training sessions, which are provided for by the developmental program to reduce anxiety, the general emotional state of EG students can be considered satisfactory, and the students' anxiety has decreased.
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