INDIVIDUAL FACTORS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY OF THE STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the identification of individual factors of psychological safety of the students of higher education institutions. It presents subjective approach to the consideration and analysis of psychological safety phenomenon where psychological safety is understood as the security of a person generated by subjective self-perception in the universe, subjective assessment of own life sustenance in relation to its controlla- bility. The paper demonstrates the results of empirical research according to which the main determinants of psychological safety are thorough understanding of life, personal maturity, values, activity, independence, and resiliency.
It finds out four subgroups of subjects under study with different levels of psychological safety that differ by attitude to themselves, world, other people, visions of own activities and satisfaction. Markings of the first group are positive attitude to the world, high level of social activity, self-satisfaction, satisfaction with relations with people, own life and surround in whole. Outstanding characteristics of the second group are positive atti- tude to the world, low social activity and dissatisfaction with own life. Peculiarities of the third group are low social activity and sufficiently high life satisfaction. The fourth group is characterized by a negative attitude to the world around, average level of satisfaction and high social activity.
The paper determines correlation relations between the vision of psychological safety and individual char- acteristics which indicates the fact that the higher the level of psychological security the higher the level of a thorough understanding of life, internal values are more developed, vision of the nature of man in general is more positive and there is the desire for personal growth, responsibility for own actions, higher level of willing self-regulation, so in a greater degree life is perceived as interesting and emotionally rich one.