COLLEGE AGE AS A PERIOD OF CONFLICT GROWTH: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The theoretical analysis of the national and foreign scientific research on the growth of conflicts in the student’s age was carried out.
The conflict is always present in both – over and latent forms in everyday life, permeating all interpersonal relationships in society. The main question of psychology of conflict is to learn to live with the conflict using its stimulating effect.
Student of higher educational institution appears today as one of the most important figures in the future society, its progressive development and democratic reforms.
Recent researches conducted by psychologists in Ukraine caused by the need to study the behavior of individuals in the transition period of society. In difficult conditions our of our time students are often uncertain about their future, often experiencing negative emotional states and intrapersonal conflicts.
Numerous conflicts in which individuals realize the dominant age needs in their achievements, self-expression, competition, defending their own values, attitudes and passions characterize the contemporary youth. This determines the necessity to study conflict at the current stage of society development as a whole, and especially the psychological characteristics that determine it.
The emerge of conflicts was revealed to be common in the college age, but they are of the situational and changeable nature. Therefore it is important to pay attention to the problem of the conflicts growth and to be eager to solve it taking into account the psychological characteristics of students.
It should be stressed, that its solution also depends on the general situation prevailing in the society.
The task of each part of the social system higher school in particular, is stated to struggle against the conflicts emerge, basing, foremost, on the investigations of the science of psychology.