Psychological determinants of learning activities of academically underachieving university students

The article raises the problem of university students' academic failure. results an empirical study aimed at studying features learning activity style, self-organisation processes, motivation, personal meaning for academically unsuccessful students are presented. involved 32 2nd and 3rd courses technical university. Research methods: T.O. Gordeeva’s “Scale motivation”, N.A. Kopeyna’s questionnaire “Style activity”, A.D. Ishkov’s methodology “Diagnostics (DOS)”, test unfinished sentences “For me, my studies ...”. psychological determinants failure have been revealed: amotivation dominance, meaningfulness lack, low goal-setting level, strong-willed efforts planning skills' perception as unpleasant necessity.