Alekseevna Elizaveta

The principle of “self-care”, formulated by ancient Greek thinkers, has acquired acute relevance in the modern socio-cultural situation. Researchers are currently paying more and more attention to the phenomenon of “self-care”. The purpose of the article is to describe the results of a study of college students' ideas about the phenomenon of "self-care", as well as to analyze the relationship of these ideas with life satisfaction and psychological comfort of students. Research methods: essay “Self-care”, original questionnaire, E. Diener's life satisfaction scale, K. Riff's psychological comfort scale, HAM (health, activity, mood) questionnaire. The revealed structure of students' ideas about the content of "self-care" correlates with the data available in the literature and includes ideas about their personal development and well-being, as well as caring for others. The manifestation of the students’ keeping to the principles of taking care of themselves in real life positively correlates with their satisfaction with life, indicators of psychological comfort, activity and mood as well as with such indicators of psychological comfort as goals in life, self-acceptance, environment control, positive relationships.