Psychological well-being of students in digital educational environment

Don State Technical University, Gagarin sq., 1, 344003, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

^* Corresponding author: babahova_l@mail.ru

Abstract

Currently, the process of digitalization of society affects absolutely all spheres of human activity and forms a completely new information environment that opens up access for every person to any sources of information. The digital educational environment provides a number of advantages for all participants in the educational process and creates prospects for a personal growth. But, despite the readiness of modern students to use new information technologies, the rapid digitalization of the educational environment creates a number of threats and risks to psychological safety. In connection with the restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, the abrupt transfer of the educational process to a distance format and, as a consequence, the weakening of personal contact, the problem of preserving and maintaining the psychological well-being of students has become even more urgent, since the effectiveness of training and positive personal development. The article presents the results of a study, the purpose of which was to study the characteristics of psychological well-being of students during the transition to distance learning. The empirical object of the research were students of 1-3 courses in the amount of 107 people aged from 18 to 22 years old, enrolled in bachelor's programs in technical and humanitarian areas of training. The data obtained in the course of the study on a number of parameters: the emotional component of subjective well-being, the level of socio-psychological adaptability, strategies of stress-coping behavior, such components of resilience as involvement, control, risk taking, made it possible to carry out a correlation analysis, draw interesting conclusions, outline the prospects for further studying the problem.