THE REASONS OF NONRESIDENT STUDENTS’ MALADJUSTMENT IN UNIVERSITY AND THE WAYS OF OVERCOMING THEM
The paper studies the problem of nonresident students’ maladjustment to the university. The novelty of the paper is in the use of personal approach to the adaptation problem, allowing the authors to rely upon the students’ view on the discussed situation. The main methods of research are the analysis and synthesis of current psychological and pedagogical literature on the problem, interviewing and questionnaires, a prognostic analysis of the received data. The study of the problem has revealed three blocks of maladjustment. They are psychological and pedagogical, social and organizational, and educational. Regarding the revealed blocks, the study reviews relevant ways of overcoming the first-year students’ distress and forming resilience to uncomfortable conditions. The resilience is viewed as a necessary condition of efficient academic activity of students, providing to their self-development and self-realization. The carried out analysis of the reasons of malfunction points to the necessity of the complete transformation of the university up bringing work: from important, but often ill-conceived plan of entertaining events to the real solution of the urgent problems, in particular to the establishment of psychological and pedagogical services, the revision of the curriculum, and the activities, facilitating students’ acceptance of the unfamiliar environment.