Introduction. The present research is dedicated to an urgent problem of investigating the stress experience and adaptation by students studying in a multicultural environment of modern universities. In the course of studying the resources for stress resistance and adaptation, the authors analysed Chinese and Russian students’ value priorities and value realisation based on the concept of multiple self. The relevance of the chosen approach is based on the existence of intrapersonal value conflict experienced by students studying in the multicultural university environment and interaction with representatives of other cultures.Aim. The current research aims to conduct cross-cultural analysis of values of the multiple self and the reflective choice of Chinese students in the context of stress experience and adaption to stressfulsituations in a new culture, and students from Russia studying in the environment of multicultural interaction.Methodology and research methods. The authors used a comparative analysis of the significance of values and their realisation among representatives of different cultures in the situation of experiencing stress and adaptation to stressful situations in the multicultural educational environment.Results and scientific novelty. The study allowed the authors to analyse the factors of successful adaptation to a different culture on the sample of Chinese and Russian students studying in the same multicultural environment. The research revealed values specific for students from different culture groups with a high level of adaptation to the multicultural environment of a modern university: health, art, career, power, education for students from China, freedom and friendship for students from Russia. Cultural-specific differences were found in the successful realisation of personal value standards in the field of love (more achievable for the group of Chinese students) and freedom (more achievable for Russian students). Cultural groups with varying degrees of adaptation to the multicultural environment of the university were identified and analysed. The obtained results on specifics of students’ adaptation to the multicultural educational environment could be used as the basis for a differential approach to further cross-cultural studies.Practical significance. The analysed specifics of the reflection on the value priorities from different substructures of the multiple self and the established differences in the realisation of personal value standards of students from China and Russia can be used in the consulting practice of cultural adaptation centres.

Introduction. Present work is dedicated to an urgent problem that has emerged as a result of a global trend – an increase in the number of young people moving to other countries in search for a higher education, which often leads to stress during the process of cultural adaptation.In the current research, the authors conducted a comparative analysis of the normative and individual values of students from China and Russia, studying at the Russian university. The relevance of the research is based on the existing need for distinguishing psychological resources that could be helpful in the process of cultural adaptation and experiencing stress during the contact with the new cultural environment. Value foundations are considered as one of such potential resources, capable of affecting process of experiencing stress and adaptation.The aim of the present article was to conduct a cross-cultural analysis of the normative and individual values of students from China, who experience stress and adapt to stressful situations in a new culture, and students from Russia studying with them.Methodology and research methods. The research uses a comparative analysis of values of different cultures and a complex analysis of value foundations in the context of experiencing stress and adaptation to stressful situations among migrant students.Results and scientifi novelty. In the course of the research, it was found out that values corresponding to the cultural specifi of the native countries of the students (China and Russia) are statistically more pronounced among students with a low level of stress. Among students with a high level of stress, values, which are not that part of the normative of their native culture, are more pronounced. Hedonistic values hamper the process of cultural adaptation both for Russian and Chinese students. A comprehensive study of the relationship between adaptation to stressful situations and stress experience revealed the groups of students with a cross-cultural specifiof the value foundations for experiencing stress. The data obtained both correlate with the existing studies of changes in values of students from China and Russia, and provide a basis for further research in the direction of studying stress and adaptation among students from both countries.Practical significance. The research results can be used in the analysis of stress exposure among students from Russia and China and the subsequent development of adaptational strategies. The discovered specificities of cultural value foundations could be employed to form potential resources of preadaptation to stressful situations among student youth.