摘要：AbstractThe article presents an analysis of the significance of student associations on the basis of self-organization that gives young people an opportunity to correct and develop personality potential within the framework of educational institutions for overcoming an uncertainty situation in contemporary risk societies. The aim of the research is to reveal characteristics of a self-organization process in the context of students’ association activities, to evaluate real practices of developing students’ associations on the basis of personal self-organization processes, to disclose contradictions and factors inhibiting the development of this process in educational institutions. As a result, it has been found that the characteristics include correlation of students’ personality traits, commonality of participation motives and commonality of the value basis in the process of organizing effective vital activity of an association. The indicated propositions are the basis and guidelines for building effective work of the relative departments and services of a university.
