Anna R. Sorokina

The article specifies the relevance of studying issues of psychological well-being of first-year university students as an important internal resource of a person that helps to cope with life’s difficulties. The purpose of the article is to analyze the characteristics of the manifestation of the structural components of psychological well-being among first-year students of different areas of training. Research methods: K. Riff’ scale of psychological well-being, adapted by L. V. Zhukovskaya, E. G. Troshikhina. The results of the study showed that psychological well-being among first-year students is primarily felt in openness to new experiences, the desire to learn, and self-improvement. It is shown that the psychological well-being of students in different areas of training has its own unique structure, characterized by different levels of manifestation of psychological well-being scales.