To the question of military cadets' Social anxiety

The paper considers the cadets' social anxiety as a result of their educational environment. The focus is made on the historically developed peculiarities of the departmental educational institution, which cause social anxiety as an integral part of the educational process. These primarily include the administrative-command style of relationships with cadets, the rigid regulation of the educational process based on subject-object relations, a relative space limitation of cadets' activities and a small variety of their social connections. Basing on the empirical data given in the literature it is shown that a high level of social anxiety is related to the cadets' experience of emotional discomfort in the strictly regulated conditions of their life activity. However, the implemented trainings aimed to reduce the cadets' anxiety level only help them to adapt to the administrative-command style of relationships that dominates in departmental educational institutions. According to the author, the creation in a university of a favourable psychological climate for studies implies formation of stable corporate relations and development of a corporate culture.