PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF MAN LIVING IN ECOLOGICALLY UNFAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF RESEARCH

The author aims to present fundamentals of the psychological adaptation conception researching the population that were born and live in ecologically unfavourable living environment. Psychological adaptation is assumed to be a systemic characteristic of the man-living environment (natural and social) system. The empirical study revealed common but not equal in intensity decrease of psychological adaptation indices performed by subjects who were born and live in Transbaikal Region. The author believes that the discovered decrease is the consequence of the realized special – that of the strategy of minimizing adaptation.