Abstract

This article covers the features of the ideas of students about loneliness and solitude. The purpose of the article is to analyze the perceptions of contemporary domestic and foreign students about the concept of loneliness and solitude and highlight differences in their interpretation. Loneliness is defined as students’ social and psychological human condition characterized by a lack of significant relationship to her people that it would be emotionally satisfying, and a sense of isolation, futility, and loss zalyshenosti. Analyzing attempts surveyed our students to provide their own definition of privacy, we can conclude that in general it is perceived more positively than loneliness. Solitude is defined as a student, first of all, voluntary action and the status of temporary absence of communication whose purpose is apparently rethinking life, feelings and actions or the time you can use useful for restoring vitality and energy. Solitude is an important factor to overcome the loneliness of the student, and there is a need, satisfaction of which is necessary for the development of his personality. This need appears naturally in various stages of the process of individualization and the process of gradual separation from parents. But, along with other psychological, social and educational factors, emotional separation from parents provokes a sense of loss and loneliness among students. In other words, do not stay alone in itself, but a set of different social and educational factors is the state of being alone with students.