Keyword: «age stages»

The issues of existential development of students in the process of professional training are of special interest to researchers from the point of view of studying personal properties, characteristics and resources of future specialists. Hardiness is an important personal quality of a student, which contributes to the effective use of personal capabilities and, as a desired life outcome, to the achievement of existential development. The aim of the article is to verify and justify the existence of a relationship between the indicators of hardiness and existential development in students at different stages of education. The research has shown that the degree of existential development manifestation increases in students with age. The revealed regularity is conditioned by the age peculiarities of hardiness manifestation, which increases due to the fact of involvement in educational and professional activity and is accompanied by the experience of existential development - self-realization, self-fulfillment, vocation.