Psychological Support for Academic Adaptation of First-Year Students with Disabili- ties in a Vocational Educational Institution
Author(s):
Elena S. Grinina, Candidate of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation Technologies, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8766-9668,
AuthorID: 683090, N.G. Chernyshevsky Saratov National Research State University
83 Astrakhanskaya St, Saratov, 410012, Russia, tel: +7 (8452) 228586, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nina A. Kuzmina, Educational Psychologist, https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5425-7466, Saratov College of Water Transport, Construction and Service,
79 Novo-Astrakhanskoe Sh, Saratov, 410001, Russia, tel: +7 (8452) 958341, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,
Abstract: Introduction. The article analyzes the experience of implementing psychological support for academic adaptation of first-year students with disabilities in the educational process of a professional educational institution. The focus is on such aspects of academic adaptation as emotional state, anxiety, academic motivation, and the level of socio-psychological adaptability of college students.
Materials and methods. The comparative study involved 89 first-year students aged 15-18, including 44 first-year students with disabilities (intellectual disability) and 45 conditionally healthy first-year students. The study of academic adaptation was carried out using a set of methods and techniques: “Self-assessment of emotional states” (A. Wessman and D. Ricks); “Scale for assessing the level of reactive and personal anxiety” (Ch.D. Spielberg, adaptation by Yu.L. Khanin); “Self-assessment of psychological adaptability”; “The Ladder of Motivations” (A.I. Bozhovich, I.K. Markova); questionnaire “Analysis of Adaptation of First-Year Students”. At the formative stage of the experiment, a program for optimizing the academic adaptation of first-year students with disabilities in a vocational educational institution was developed and tested, which included correctional and developmental classes for first-year students with disabilities, as well as psychological and educational work with students, parents and teachers. At the control stage, the dynamics of academic adaptation of first-year students with disabilities was analyzed.
Results. As a result of the implementation of the program for optimizing the academic adaptation of first-year students with disabilities in a vocational educational institution, positive statistically significant changes in the area of emotional well-being, a decrease in reactive anxiety, and an increase in academic motivation were revealed in first-year college students with disabilities.
Conclusion. The data obtained expand the understanding of the specifics of academic adaptation of first-year students with disabilities in a vocational educational institution; the developed program for optimizing academic adaptation can be used in the practice of their psychological support in the educational process.
Keywords: academic adaptation, professional education, disabilities, academic adaptation of first-year students, adaptation of students with disabilities
For citation: Grinina E.S., Kuzmina N.A. Psychological Support for Academic Adaptation of First-Year Students with Disabilities in a Vocational Educational Institution // Pedagogicheskiy IMIDZH = Pedagogical IMAGE. 2025; 19 (2). Pp. 247-262. (In Russ.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2025-19-2-247-262
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2025-19-2-247-262
UDС: 159.9:376:377
The article was submitted to the editorial office on 04.03.2025, approved after review on 07.06.2025, and accepted for publication on 10.06.2025.