Assessment of the degree of young scientists’ adaptation to conditions of labor and learning activities in the scientific institution

The article considers the issue of research institutions graduates’ adaptation to professional activities and substantiates the importance of psychological and pedagogical support in solving it. The authors analyze theoretical approaches to the definition of “adaptation”. The Institute of Socio-Economic Development of Territories of the Russian Academy of Sciences teaches graduates at ISEDT RAS Research-and-Education Center of Economics and Information Technologies. The article describes the work directions, applied and implemented by the psychological-pedagogical support group of the Research-and-Education Center, such as diagnostic, developing and educating. It presents the results of diagnostics of first year graduates’ adaptation in three aspects: identification of learning and professional activity motivation at the Institute of Socio-Economic Development of Territories of the Russian Academy of Sciences; graduates’ awareness of goals, objectives, content and conditions of work in general; assessment of the degree of graduates’ emotional comfort in new work and learning conditions in the new team; estimation of difficulties that young graduate students face and study of factors, affecting the productivity of their labor and learning activities. The authors consider the results dynamics, compared to the indicators of previous years. The article makes a conclusion that ISEDT RAS Research-and-Education Center has formed a productive system to support young specialists in professional and educational activities.