Adaptational Potential and Subjective Well-being of Comprehensive School Graduates and First Year Students of Higher Educational Institutions ★

Adaptational potential of person in conditions of stability (students of high-school) and objective difficulties (first-year students) may be connected with characteristics of satisfaction with life and also with social and academic activity. That is why it is necessary to study if there is a connection between the parameters of adaptation and students’ satisfaction with life in the situation of transition from one education step to another. School students (graduates) N=85 and first-year students N=90 took part in the research. During the transition from one education step to another, young men's adaptational potential decreases because of the decrease of behavior regulation and satisfaction with life. Social and psychological adaptation of students is connected with satisfaction with the social status, goals reaching and their habitat. The statistical connection between psychological and physiological level of adaptation and satisfaction with life is not fixed. There is a direct statistically significant connection between adaptational potential and satisfaction with life. Waiting for exams and uncertainty in future, dissatisfaction with social status and goals reaching are defining for disadaptational violations of students.