Emotions, Personality Traits and Metacognitions as Predictors of Students' Psychological Well-Being in Contemporary Situation

This study aims to comprehensively explore the emotional, personal, and metacognitive predictors of students' psychological well-being . The article presents the results of identifiesying supporting and dysfunctional factors that affect the level of psycho-logical well-being of the current generation of students . Study sample: 317 people subjects aged 18 to 45 years (average age 20 .82) - undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students . To measure these characteristics, the following methods were used: a short portrait questionnaire of the Big Five; methodology "Differential Scale of Emotions "; methodology for diagnosing the subjective well-being of the individual; Metacognitive Awareness Inventory; Metacognitive behavior self-assessment scale; test "Differential type of reflection "; Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and the author's self-assessment questionnaire of metacognitive behavior "Metacognitive skills in the structure of educational and professional activities " . It is shown that the level of subjective well-being differs significantly depending on the level of metacognitive involvement . A positive effect is also exerted by a high index of positive emotions, a greater level of extraversion and conscientiousness, and a low level of neuroticism . The data obtained can be helpful in developing programs for forming and reforming individual metacognitive strategies that contribute to successful adaptation and main-taining subjective well-being maintenance.