Students’ Self-Esteem Problematics as a Factor of Socio-Psychological Stability

Today, when values, moral standards, and worldviews undergo are changing in the contemporary individuals’ consciousness, the “psychological health” among youth, linked to the phenomenon of “self-esteem”, holds particular significance. The adequacy of the last correlates with the level of personal requirements, well-being, and success. It is noted that at a higher education institution, the firstand second-year students’ self-esteem is subject to dynamic changes, where an effective pedagogical support influences essentially on this, by means of pedagogical methods and technologies used in the educational-bringing-up process. The article analyzes the effectiveness of pedagogical technologies aimed at students’ adequate self-esteem developing and their situational anxiety reducing, such as interactive methods related to the collective working forms organizing, to the increasing students’ motivation for learning and self-realization, and to the creating the personal success motivation in whole. These methods allow students to “see” themselves through others’ eyes, design their personal development trajectories, and learn to constructively build social interactions.