Adaptation Peculiarities of the First-Year Students to University Life: Study on Stress Resistance

Oleh Mykhailovych Topuzov (), Anzhelika Volodymyrivna Shamne (), Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Malykhin (), Nataliia Oleksandrivna Aristova () and Tetiana Leonidivna Opaliuk ()
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Oleh Mykhailovych Topuzov: Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
Anzhelika Volodymyrivna Shamne: Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky Hryhoriy Skovoroda State Pedagogical University
Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Malykhin: Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
Nataliia Oleksandrivna Aristova: Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
Tetiana Leonidivna Opaliuk: Kamyanets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko National University

Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, 2020, vol. 12, issue 2, 48-59

Abstract: The paper is aimed at investigating adaptation peculiarities of the first-year students to university life. Among 105 first-year students selected for taking part in research 57 were internal migrants who had to change their place of residence and move to a student residential complex and 48 were original city residents who continued living at home. The research took place in 2018/2019 academic year at two Ukrainian universities. To promote research and collect data several diagnostic tools were used. To understand the leading concepts of research the methods of scientific literature analysis were applied. To process and interpret the obtained results the authors used the methods of mathematical statistics. The obtained results showed that stress resistance was the main source of successful adaptation of the first-year students to university life. Being self-resistant students-internal migrants seemed to know better how to deal with problems concerning their study and to be more open to interactions with their peers, family members and university teachers. At the same time facing unusual problems students-original city residents were not able to cope with them in a proper way and were more vulnerable to different stressors concerning university and personal life. The conducted research made it possible to define the difference between stress resistance of students-internal migrants and students-original city residents and to prove the correlation between adaptation and stress level.

Keywords: Adaptation; higher education institution; stress; stress-resistance; students-internal migrants; students-original city residents; university life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.18662/rrem/12.2/265

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