ADAPTATION OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SEPARATION FROM PARENTS

Benkova Oksana Anatolyevna, Artyukhova Tatyana Yuryevna

The article presents the results of an experimental study of psychological separation of first-year students from their parents in connection with their adaptation to studying at a university. The connections between the components of psychological separation of first-year students in relationships with their mother and father and the level of their social, didactic and professional adaptation to the university were established. Connections were found between first-year students adaptation to the study group and emotional and functional separation; adaptation to educational activities and conflictological, attitudinal, and functional separation. The peculiarities of psychological separation of first-year students from their parents were revealed, manifested in a higher level of their conflictological, emotional, attitudinal and functional separation from their father than from their mother.

Keywords:adaptation, students' adaptability to the university, to the study group, to educational activities; social, didactic, professional adaptability; psychological separation; conflictological, functional, emotional, attitudinal separation.