FEATURES OF USING SOCIAL SUPPORT IN DISABILITY LIFE SITUATIONS
The paper presents the results of a study of 210 students aged from 16 to 20 years old enrolled in the university and the college os Moscow State Psycho-Pedagogical University. 162 healthy and 48 disability students were investigated for differences in self-regulation structures and social support. The hypothesis of this study is that social support is built into the system of self-regulation as the personal resources in a situation of disability without resources of coping, but for healthy students social support is an external sustainability resource and part of the social capital in subject well-being. The results of the correlation, factor and regression analysis confirmed the hypothesis of relation between social support and stress duration in the two groups of students. The paper showed that social support is engaged in difficult situations as a resource of stability for short-term stress situation and as a resource for self-regulation in disability situation.