RESEARCH OF SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF STUDENT GROUPS FUNCTIONING IN THE COURSE OF EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY.

Educational and professional activity of the student occurs in the conditions of staying in the structure of a small educational group. It does not demand group achievement results (when the success of other partners depends on success of one member of group). Therefore high personal orientation of the student proves in this case an essential characteristic basically. It is neutral from the point of view of solving problems, which sometimes arise before student groups. Nevertheless, the educational group can reach the highest level of a social-psychological maturity with high level of readiness, organizational and psychological unity characteristic for command subculture. The behaviour of the person in the group represents the adaptive process counterbalancing it with the surrounding social environment. The persons deviating the accepted norms are perceived as behaving dysfunctionally. The analysis of group activity should consider psychological compatibility in the system of person-group interaction. Considering this aspect of compatibility is extremely important both for the best understanding of the process of adaptation of the person in the group and with a view of optimisation of intragroup interactions, and, naturally, from the point of view of efficiency of group functioning. Thus, research of social-psychological aspects of functioning of student groups in the course of educational and professional activity has shown that the social-psychological climate and leader qualities are an essential aspect of functioning of student groups in the course of educational and professional activity. The efficiency of educational and professional activity can be realized in various behavioural strategies depending on the place of the individual in a given society. It allows students to overcome stressful situations in the course of training in higher school with highest productivity. The following conclusions have been made:1..For the future sports managers both leader roles will be essential: the tool (business) leader and the expressional (emotional) leader. Both roles are realized through the behavioural component of the psychological climate.2.Leaders of student groups feel comfortable enough, taking an average place when estimating the social-psychological climate in the group. Manageable students in the educational environment of high school experience essential difficulties at interaction with other participants of educational process, especially in emotional and behavioural fields of activity.3.Manageable students in the group choose the behavioural strategy based on minimization of interaction with leaders and the neutral members. It allows them to lower the negative social-psychological background towards themselves and to reduce the biosocial price of adaptation to the given conditions.

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