Abstract
Introduction: In the era of dynamic modern transformations in the education system, there is a need for effective psychological tools for updating individual psychological and life resources, self-regulation of students' mental states, contributing to the preservation and support of their mental health.
 Purpose: to substantiate the recreational potential of the metaphorization of mental states as a recreational method of self-regulation in the system of psychological well-being, to identify its individual psychological characteristics in students.
 Methodology: Experimental work was carried out on the basis of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Tavriya National University named after V. Vernadsky. Five hundred and ten respondents were involved in the research process (18 - 45 years, 65% female; study specializations: “Arts”, “Design”, “Management”, “Psychology”). The research was based on the analysis of free associative experiment, method of cognitive interpretation, praximetric and executive methods for distributing certain semantic units
 Results: the most popular among students causes of dissatisfaction in the situation with stress and lack of satisfaction in basic psychological needs, negative and positive conditions at different levels, life furnishings, those situations when there are stinks; on the basis of the experience of the SUM inquirer, there are positive changes in the most of the majority of students. On the basis of the developed model of self-regulation of mental states by means of metaphorization (5 stages of the act of metaphorical creativity of resource states), when its recreational functions are realized, transformations of strategies of thinking and life take place, internal resources are activated
 Conclusions: The developed model of metaphorization of search of resource states is an effective means of stabilization and self-regulation of a mental condition of students that allows to be guided quickly in changing living and educational conditions, to choose optimum for each separate case methods and means of mental self-regulation
Highlights
In the era of dynamic modern transformations in the education system, there is a need for effective psychological tools for updating individual psychological and life resources, self-regulation of students' mental states, contributing to the preservation and support of their mental health
A fundamental issue for our study is to describe such categories as “mental health”, “psychological well-being”, “mental states”, “mental self-regulation”, “individual psychological resources” in their relationship and interdependence
The purpose of the paper is to substantiate the recreational potential of the metaphorization of mental states as a recreational method of selfregulation in the system of psychological wellbeing, to identify its individual psychological characteristics in students
Summary
In the era of dynamic modern transformations in the education system, there is a need for effective psychological tools for updating individual psychological and life resources, self-regulation of students' mental states, contributing to the preservation and support of their mental health. In the context of our study, among the many definitions of well-being by psychologists, have identified the following: on the basis of the integrity in defining true “Self”, through a harmony of the mental processes and functions, when a person is aware of his integrity having inner balance; he is satisfied with himself and with the world around him, and reveals an ability to respond to existential challenges of life, including self-realization and personal growth (Ryff, 1989); the ability to move from reliance on the environment and manipulation of the environment to reliance on self and self-regulation (Perls et al, 1995); an affective state of emotional well-being, on the one hand, and a cognitive state of life satisfaction and of life’s meaning, on the other hand (Emmons, 2004); a complex mental education, which is manifested in the experience of meaningful content and value of life, a sense of satisfaction with life and self, achieving current motives and needs of the individual in the perspective of socially significant goals and a positive assessment of their own existence (Кarhina, 2018: 204)
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