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The relevance of the study is due to the lack of a methodology to measure the satisfaction of a person’s need for security as one of the basic psychological needs. The objective of the study is to develop and validate a methodology for measuring the satisfaction of a person’s basic need for security. The article hypothesizes that the proposed tool is suffi ciently reliable, valid, and makes it possible to measure and evaluate the satisfaction of a person’s basic need for security.

The necessity to “reconcile” various research positions regarding the study of subjective well-being phenomenon on the basis of an integrated approach makes the study of the theoretical approaches to the phenomenon relevant. Despite the abundance of modern scientifi c publications in the fi eld of psychology devoted to the study of well-being, there is a lack of a unifi ed understanding of the nature of this phenomenon. Scientists use a lot of concepts that are similar in content, but are not strictly diff erentiated.

The article provides the results of empirical studies on assessment of the consistency and specific diagnostic capabilities of a number of techniques for diagnosing the level of satisfaction of students with the education they receive (sample group size is 266 students). In addition to the author's techniques described in the article the researcher used personality questionnaires: viability tests and method of style self-regulation of behavior.