FEATURES OF EXPRESSIONS OF STRESS AMONG MODERN STUDENTS OF HIGHER AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The article presents the results of empirical research of features of stress reactions that occur in learning activities of modern students of universities and vocational schools. The importance of studying the problem of educational stress of modern Ukrainian students is substantiated. There is described the procedure of research with the use of methods of study of the educational stress Shcherbatykh Y. Research sample amounted to 600 students from Chernivtsi, including 316 students of institutions of higher education and 284 vocational schools students. Among surveyed were 283 men and 317 women. The age of the surveyed students was from 15 to 45 years. On the basis of the analysis of the results of the empirical research author determined psychological features of the manifestations of stress among modern Ukrainian students of institutions of higher and secondary education. Their common and distinctive features were identified. It was revealed that during the last decade the importance of problems related to the educational activities and the daily functioning of students has increased. The most severe manifestations of academic stress of modern Ukrainian students are behavioural, the least severe - physiological. The level of examination stress among students of Universities and vocational schools is considerably higher than a decade ago (Shcherbatykh Y. research, 2006). The level of stress load of students of institutions of higher education is much bigger than the level of stress load of students of vocational schools. The study revealed a number of problems that require focused systematic work, because in all groups of surveyed students was found out that some of them use alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. These persons, in particular, are in need of specialist psychological care on effective methods of reducing the stress load