Problems of students’ socio-psychological testing in higher education institutions

The article presents the problems of organizing socio-psychological testing aimed at determining the risks of the psychoactive substances use in a university. Based on the integration of monitoring experience at Perm State National Research University from 2016 to 2020 three groups of difficulties were identified: ethical, methodological, organizational. There are no definite answers to questions about an anonymity of the results, a psychological safety of the research’s participants, and about a reliability of the method.