PECULIARITIES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION OF ADOLESCENTS AND STUDENTS AS A PRECONDITION FOR THEIR ASOCIAL BEHAVIOR

The paper deals with an experimental study of adolescents' and students' psychosocial adaptation as a precondi-tion for their asocial behavior. Successful psychosocial adaptation contributes to the formation of an integral and posi-tive self-image, adequate and stable self-esteem which are a condition for logical behavior and advanced self-regulation, and, correspondingly, it reduces the probability of asocial behavior emergence in adolescents and students. The study involved 252 adolescents studying at schools aged 13-14 and 285 first-year students of Melitopol State Pedagogical University named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky. Using an expert evaluation method, the examination of respondents' behavior according to the criterion of presence or absence of asocial behavior manifestations has been performed. It has been found that socially adequate students' and adolescents' behavior is associated with a higher level of their psychosocial adaptation and its certain indicators (the level of self-acceptance and tolerance, emotional comfort, internal locus of control) and striving for domination as a tendency to influence a situation and other people, and vice versa, asocial behavior has close correlation relationship with lower level of adaptability to psychosocial envi-ronment and its parameters. The carried out theoretical and empirical research can be the basis for the development and implementation of efficient methods of students' and adolescents' asocial behavior prevention.