AFAPTIVE ABILITIES AS AN INDICATOR OF STUDENTS’ HEALTH

Svetlana A. Mukhina¹*, Olga V. Polozova²*, Maria N. Gavrilova³*, Irina S. Zimina⁴*, Olga A. Yagdarova⁵* and Valentina V. Bahtina⁶*
¹As. Prof., Mari State University, Russia, zaslonka@inbox.ru
²As. Prof., Mari State University, Russia, polozovaolga1@mail.ru
³Prof., Mari State University, Russia, mashagavriliva@mail.ru
⁴Senior lecturer, Mari State University, Russia, irinaSBzimina@yandex.ru
⁵Prof., Mari State University, Russia, berdniko1984@mail.ru
⁶As. Prof., Mari State University, Russia, vbachtina@mail.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract
Successful adaptation of students to studying in a higher educational establishment largely depends not only on the functional state of organs and systems, life activity organization, but also on their psychosocial well-being. The paper presents an analysis of first-year students’ stress resistance according to the psychological well-being scale and shows the presence of students that have a negative level of well-being. We found that students have a reduced level of psychological well-being, the indicator of pronounced ill-being of emotional sphere manifests itself more frequently, and adaptation mechanisms are lowered. In this paper an assumption was made that the level of compensative and adaptive mechanisms in first-year students will increase due to such factors as stress resistance, axiological orientation on health and, eventually, formation of «life» competencies.

Keywords: adaptation, well-being, health, stress resistance, cardio-respiratory reserve.