EXPERIENCE OF SOCIAL STRESS AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENTS CHANGING SCHOOLS

The article analyses the peculiarities of teenagers’ adaptation to learning in a new educational organisation and manifestations of social stress. The authors found that experiencing social stress at the beginning of studying at a new school with low values of adaptability is associated with manifestations of emotionality and activity in communication, and a year later, with the same indicators of experiencing social stress and an overall improvement in adaptation indicators, self-criticism and independence are activated in adolescents.