Indices of socio-emotional wellbeing of youth: evaluation and directions of improvement

Abstract

Research objective: The aim of this work is to evaluate the socio-emotional wellbeing of youth and to specify their directions of improvement. Research methods: Theoretical analysis of works on educational psychology and social psychology devoted to the issues of the socio-emotional wellbeing and psychological safety of students; conducting testing of students. Research results: Basing on the analysis of the theoretic and methodological material we defined and described personal qualities of students, which determine socio-emotional (psychosocial) well-being and which are indices of social-psychological safety of education environment. These indices are as follows: communication skills, social tolerance, creativity. The conducted investigation allowed us to reveal positive correlation connections between the level of subjective well-being and formedness of personal qualities, which define the socio-emotional wellbeing of students. The authors have concluded that it is necessary to improve the organization of the educational process in order to ensure the socio-emotional wellbeing of students and social safety of society as a whole To prevent the threats, the necessity of creation of a safe educational environment is grounded which should comprise a tolerant environment, and psychologically comfortable environment excluding any violence and requiring the relevant professional training of teachers and education personnel.