Tatyana A. Vtyurina

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.

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.

The article highlights the importance of studying personal self-actualization as a style-forming factor of individual pedagogical activity. The purpose of the article is to show the peculiarities of the relationship between self-actualization and individual style of pedagogical activity among teachers with different pedagogical experience. It was found that respondents generally share the values of a self-actualizing person, and have differences in the expression of pedagogical activity styles depending on the length of work. It was revealed that teachers with less than five years of work experience who have high indicators on the value scale are more likely to use an emotionally methodical style of pedagogical activity in their work.

The article shows the relevance of studying the self-concept as one of the factors that help reach personal potential, ensuring the development of the ability to self-actualize. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate that the levels of self-development are reflected in the different organization of the cognitive and evaluative components of the self-concept in adolescents. According to the results of a comparative analysis, it has been found that persons actively fulfilling their needs for self-development are characterized by self-respect and autosympathy. Persons who do not have an established system of self-development find primarily shortcomings in themselves and they are prone to self-deprecation.

In this paper we investigate the relationship of social competence of younger schoolboys with their individual emotional expressions. Conducted quantitative and qualitative analyses, on which basis conclusions are drawn about the correlation of different competencies to a disturbing and stressful conditions of students.