[Cognitive mental processes and personality characteristics of socially unadjusted students]

Examination of 42 first-year students from the Pomor State University in Arkhangelsk has shown that 61.91% of them had obvious signs of social disadaptation and high reactive and personality anxiety and 38.09% had no social disadaptation with low and moderate anxiety. Examination was performed in the intersession period. Students with phenomena of social disadaptation displayed reduced functioning of basic cognitive mental processes: memory, thinking, attention. The individual properties predisposing to disadaptation were as follows: instability of central nervous system performance and the personality features were hypersensitivity, sensitiveness, emotional liability, some demonstrativeness in behavior, high anxiety, inclination to phobias. The detected changes in cognitive mental processes show it necessary to develop and to introduce comprehensive sociopsychological rehabilitative programmes for students of higher educational establishments for early assessment and adequate correction of social disadaptation phenomena.