Keyword: «existential fulfillment»

The results of an empirical study are presented. The analysis of works in the field of existential psychology is made. The authors studied the specificity of adolescents’ emotional sphere development and the influence of existential fulfillment on the emotional sphere of adolescents. On a sample of 31 teenagers of grade 8, reliable data were obtained that levels of both situational and personal anxiety in adolescents with a higher level of existential fulfillment are certainly lower than in the group with its lower level. The emotional sphere of adolescents with a higher level of existential fulfillment is characterized by predominance of positive affect and a higher level of emotional intelligence, but only at the level of the trend.

The article presents the results of the study. The urgency of studying the psychological characteristics of foreign students who study in Russian universities is justified. The differences of socio-cultural peculiarities in different countries complicate the already difficult period of yesterday's schoolchildren adaptation to the University. Adaptation, existential fulfillment of students was studied in groups of students from Russia and from abroad. The results showed that there was no reliable difference between these groups of students in the parameters of social and cultural adaptation, as well as its existential fulfillment components: self-distancing, self-transcendence, freedom, responsibility.