Description:
The article deals with the theoretical approaches to understanding social and psychological adjustment of the individual. There are the results of empirical research which was conducted to study social and psychological adjustment of the individual in the context of connection between social frustration and personal identification. The conclusion is that adaptation is a holistic and systemic process, individual characteristics of which one are determined by human’s psychological characteristics and the level of his individual development, the components of subjective well-being, which is characterized by sophisticated mechanisms of regulation of personal conduct and activities; and also in the context of connection between social frustration and personal identification. According to the authors, consecutive change of states of psychological adaptation can be followed by intrapersonal conflicts, the solution of which depends on the adaptive potential of the individual. It is indicated that psychological adaptation is a complex system process, in which the value-sense sphere’s rebuilding is one of the leading indicators of personal development and elaboration of the most probable way to solve vital tasks in new prevailing social conditions.