Specifics of Formation of Comfortable Socio-Cultural Environment as Factor in Formation of Well-Being of Modern Students

The article presents the data from studies conducted by employees of the laboratory of psychological, economic and cross-cultural research of the Institute of Social Sciences of Irkutsk State University. The article examines the social well-being of students from two viewpoints: economic and socio-cultural, which is most prominently highlighted. The article provides the authored definition of the concept “socio-cultural well-being”. It was revealed that under the conditions of socioeconomic reforms, foreign policy instability and socio-cultural transformations, the need to study social and cultural well-being have increased significantly. The attention is focused on the value orientations of modern students and their status characteristics. Based on the research, an innovative method is proposed for the solution of the problems of a comfortable social and cultural environment. The method consists in the organization of club activities in a territorially separate creative space, which will allow solving the problem of achieving the well-being of modern students. The authors used data from several studies on these projects of scientific foundations in the Russian cities of Abakan, Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Kyzyl, Tomsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Yakutsk. The total number of respondents was 2000 people. Keywords—youth; socio-cultural well-being; comfortable sociocultural environment; creative space and club activity