READINESS FOR LEADERSHIP AS A FACTOR IN STUDENTS’ STRESS RESISTANCE

The article reflects the actual problem of the influence of readiness for leadership on students’ stress resistance. The aim of the research is to study the dependence of students’ stress resistance on their readiness for leadership. Scientific consideration of the problem was carried out on the basis of the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, which was attended by 234 students. In the process of implementing the research, the content, structure of stress resistance, readiness for leadership of students was determined, psychodiagnostic tools for studying the indicators of these phenomena were selected, the ascertaining stage of the experiment, correlation, regression analysis of the dependence of the level of stress resistance of students on the level of readiness for leadership was carried out. Stress resistance of students is presented as the ability to overcome the influence of external stressors with the help of potential expenditures. Among the criteria of students’ stress resistance, the following are highlighted: cognitive, motivational, emotional, activity. Students’ readiness for leadership is characterized as a state of mobilization of leadership potential, which ensures the effective implementation of certain actions, the presence of needs, motives, the level of taking responsibility for their actions. The readiness for leadership of students consists of the following criteria: executive, evaluative, target, personal. As a result of the experiment, it was found that stress resistance and readiness for leadership have insufficient levels of development, since more than half of the participants have an average level of development of the presented phenomena. It was also found that there is a direct relationship between the level of students’ stress resistance and their readiness for leadership. Students with a developed readiness for leadership have a high level of stress resistance. The results obtained can help in the implementation of the educational process of higher educational institutions in order to increase the level of stress resistance of young people.