Abstract
The adaptive potential of a person in the range of his socio-psychological resources represents a vital problem, which is challenging from the perspective of the society’s demands and in specifying certain methodologies of social psychology. The adaptive potential is now represented in researches as a certain combination of constitutional-morphological, physiological, bioenergetic, neurodynamic, psychic, psychological and other properties of a person. It is noted that the corresponding properties determine the ability of a person to adapt to certain activities and to the natural and social environment. It should be mentioned, that the transformational processes in the modern social environment require the actualization of the personal potential in the way appropriate to its challenges, which in the first instance draws the attention of researchers and experts in social work to the modern youth both on the level of the scientific generalization and socio-psychological support. Thus, the main attention is given to the socio-psychological context of the problem explored. The important line of the problem under exploration is related to the study of the adaptive potential in one’s system of resources as a factor of preserving one’s psychological health.
Highlights
The adaptive potential of a person in the range of his socio-psychological resources represents a vital problem, which is challenging from the perspective of the society’s demands and in specifying certain methodologies of social psychology
It is stated that the terms of reference of psychological health studies are often opposed to mental health (Maksymenko, 2012; Lefterov, 2013), as an attempt to humanize the approaches to psychiatry and biologized concepts of a person’s social behaviour (Rushton, 1988)
On the basis of the theoretical-empirical research, we have established the socio-psychological contents of the adaptive potential of young people as a factor of preserving their psychological health; we have defined the aspects of socio-psychological features and qualities, which influence psychological health of modern students; we have described the indices of socio-psychological abilities of modern students depending on the abilities to adapt to the social environment; we have elaborated the model of the socio-psychological level of interaction of adaptation courses; we have specified the predictors of socio-psychological level of the adaptive potential; we have proved the importance of interpersonal behavioural styles as a factor determining the effect of the adaptive potential on a person’s psychological health
Summary
The adaptive potential of a person in the range of his socio-psychological resources represents a vital problem, which is challenging from the perspective of the society’s demands and in specifying certain methodologies of social psychology. It is noted that the corresponding properties determine the ability of a person to adapt to certain activities and to the natural and social environment. It should be mentioned, that the transformational processes in the modern social environment require the actualization of the personal potential in the way appropriate to its challenges, which in the first instance draws the attention of researchers and experts in social work to the modern youth both on the level of the scientific generalization and socio-psychological support. It is stated that a big number of psychological health researches is based on the ideas of the psychological balance criteria, which makes the concept of psychological health related to the concepts of adaptation and adaptive potential, strengthening the position of medicalization and ignoring the socio-psychological factors of its functioning
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