Personal Adaptability of Medical Students Having Different Financial Basis of Education
The article is devoted to a comparative study of the personal adaptability of medical students having different financial basis of education (employer-sponsored, state-subsidized, commercial). The definition of personal adaptability is revealed, approaches to its detection are described, personal and subject adaptability are considered. It is stated that students having employer-sponsored education compared with state-subsidized and commercial type of education students have the most remarkable deficiency of the personal adaptability, they are more socio-oriented, prone to conformity, neuroticism, moral tension and lack of internal freedom. State-subsidized students have average level of adaptability components. Compared with other groups of medical students the commercial students demonstrate the most harmonious adaptability with the characteristics of an autonomously oriented personality.