MAIN PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF ADAPTATION OF STUDENTS' PERSONALITY TO STUDYING CONDITIONS

The article notes that student life is the most important period in the life of young people. Students are a mobile social group, the composition of which is constantly changing. High intensity of communication is a specific feature of students. Psychologists have characterized students as a “special social category”, a special group of people and identified the psychological characteristics of student age, including students’ high cognitive motivation, social activity and social maturity. Many factors influence the academic success of students at university. These factors include: financial situation, level of health, age, marital status, level of preparation before entering a university, acquisition of skills of self-organization, planning and control of one’s own activities, forms of education, material resources of higher schools, level of training, as well as specialization of teachers. It is noted that the stage of intensive socialization of students and the development of higher mental functions is constantly manifested in the general psychological plan for the development of education at a university, and thus the necessary qualities and social experience are formed in the process of student self-education.