Thinking Style is a Factor of Socio-Psychological Adaptation at Youthful Age

This work reveals the relevance to study the problem of dependence of socio-psychological adaptation on subjective factors. Special attention is paid to the consideration of the correlation between individual and typological features of thinking and successfulness in socio-psychological adaptation of a person in the student age. To implement the empirical tasks we organized and conducted the research, using the complex of methods aimed at the study of the correlation between successfulness of socio-psychological adaptation of students and thinking styles. The first-year students at the age of 17-18 years participated in this research. The results, obtained in the research and proved by the methods of mathematical statistics, have let us state that the more developed students’ thinking, the more they can take into account their own experience (pragmatic type of thinking) and subjective social factors (idealistic type of thinking) in solving problems and the higher the level of their socio-psychological adaptation. Keywords-mindset, thinking style, socio-psychological adaptation, student agе, youthful age