Keyword: «psychological comfort»

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 existence of conceptual confusion and diverse empirical models requires the development of an integrative concept of the psychological comfort of the individual. The search for a methodologically grounded model of the psychological comfort of an individual is becoming relevant due to the growing number of requests for increasing the level of psychological comfort from psychological practice. The purpose of the article is to present the results of theoretical design in the form of key ideas of the concept of achieving the psychological comfort of the individual. The concept was worked out in the context of a systemic approach and is based on the methodology of system genesis and meta-system genesis. Based on the results of the analysis of scientific literature and the conceptual design method, the author formulates main provisions of the concept of achieving the personal psychological comfort regarding its structure, functioning and genesis, which make it possible to form a multidimensional idea of the essence of the psychological comfort of an individual as a phenomenon. Theoretical provisions are subject to further empirical and experimental verification.