ZNAČAJ SOCIJALNE I EMOCIONALNE PRILAGODBE STUDENATA U OBRAZOVNOM KONTEKSTU
THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL-EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF STUDENTS IN AN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

Summary/Abstract: From a humanistic perspective on education, educational institutions should be organized in ways that would provide support for children and adolescents in processes of actualizing the entirety of their positive individual potential. In addition to educational potentials and academic development, in focus of the current educational system, it is extremely important to continuously encourage and monitor the social and emotional development of the individual in an educational context. This paper presents certain aspects of adjusting to studies (social and personal-emotional adjustment), which are important for an individual’s personal and social competence. The social adjustment constitutes a measure of a student’s success in dealing with interpersonal and social requirements characteristic of students’ lives, and personal-emotional adjustment indicates the student’s psychological functioning in an academic context.Scientists suggest that psychological problems occurring as a result of difficulties in adjustment to studies can greatly burden students, interfere with their optimal academic success and negatively affect their intellectual and social development. As a result, a growing number of educational institutions are introducing various preventive programs aimed at strengthening protective factors, i.e. developing social and emotional competence in children and adolescents, which is explained in the last part of this paper.

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