Influence of Beliefs and Motivation on Social-psychological Adaptation among University Students

AbstractThe major research objective is to study the influence of fundamental beliefs, motivation and attitude to activity on students’ social-psychological adaptation (N=172; young men – 42%). The absolute weight of positive (attitude to loyalty of the world, one's self-value, development motives, educational activity significance) and negative (readiness to change one's lifestyle; significance of self-development and entertainment) factors of students’ adaptation (66% of dispersion). Combination of beliefs in value of one's own life, in experiencing luck in life and activity, motivation of creativity, refusal from entertainment, changing of lifestyle, absence of self-development significance have great impact on the results of students’ social-psychological adaptation