Integrative structural components of adaptation readiness of students with disabilities

Abstract

The availability of higher education for people with disabilities (hereinafter referred to as “Disabled people”) cannot be considered without creating an inclusive educational environment and implementing measures for psychological and pedagogical support. Adequate, reasonable and effective accompanying work in this context provides for filling the gaps in research devoted to the study of adaptation readiness. With due account for these circumstances, the research purpose is to identify and describe the structural components of adaptation readiness of students with disabilities in the context of inclusive education. The used diagnostic battery (N=200): a diagnostic technique of Rogers-Diamond’s socio-psychological adaptation as adapted by A.K. Osnitsky; a multilevel personality questionnaire “Adaptability” (MLO – AM) (A.G. Maklakov, S.V. Chermyanin); methodology “Adaptation readiness of personality” by M.V. Grigorieva. Statistical procedures: Student’s t-test calculation, correlation by Pearson’s method; factor analysis (principal component factorization with Varimax rotation). The research results show that the adaptation capacity potential of students with conditionally normative development is statistically significantly higher than that of disabled students (t=22.1, p≤0.01). There was also a decrease in socio-psychological adaptation in the designated category of students on indicators “Adaptation” (t=8.79, p≤0.01); “Self-perception” (t = 8.48, p≤0.01); “Emotional comfort” (t = 6.73, p≤0.01). A two-factor structural model of adaptation readiness of students with disabilities, including psychological-psychophysiological and socio-psychological components, including content areas and structural elements, has been identified.