socio-psychological adaptation

The paper presents the findings of a theoretical analysis of the corre-lation between a person’s adaptation and his/her social competence. It presents the results of an empirical study of the correlation between social competence and adaptive potential that was conducted on a sample of students (N = 80, aged 18–19) using the following diagnostic tools: the «Communicative social competence instrument» (CSC) (N. P. Fetiskin, V. V. Kozlov, T. M. Manuilov) and the «Social and psychological adaptation questionnaire» (K. Rogers and R. Diamond).

The article meaningfully analyses the concepts of the personal potential and the socio-psychological adaptation in correlation with the psychological readiness of the person to take the risk in adolescence. It demonstrates the results of empirical research, carried out using a sample group of students from the universities of city of Saratov - Saratov State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky and Saratov State Medical University named after V. I. Razumovsky (N = 77, age 19-22 years). Methods that were used: «Personal factors of decision-making» (LFR-25 T. V.