Object - the internal health picture of the students; objective - determination of the mediating role of a personality's hardiness in identification of the psychological factors of the students' internal health picture; methods - theoretical (analysis, theoretical generalization, comparison, systematization of the research problem psychological data), empirical (observation, conversation, testing, educational experiment), mathematical-statistical; novelty - newly revealed interconnections between the factors of the hardiness separate components (involving, control, risk taking) as well as a personality's hardiness profile with health self-esteems in various spheres and sub-spheres of the students; proven role of hardiness as a moderator mediating the influence of the psychological factors on the students' internal health picture; by means of construction of the prognostic regression equations there have been specified psychological predictors of health self-esteems in various spheres; revealing of three integral predictors (emotional resilience, stability as a parameter of attributional style, inner pressing tolerance) which appear in the majority of the students' health spheres; specified: explanatory categories by means of which the psychological mechanisms of health obtaining and support are revealed; regularities od structuring of the own health image of the students under the influence of such factors as neurotic inclinations, strategies and styles of stress coping, attributional style, ability to perceive the external support, sensitivity to the learning activity pressings in the HEI; further development: methodical means of optimization of the students' attitude to their own health; methodological adjustment for coping with simplified negative health versions only as disease clearance; regulation on the comparative importance and level of influence of the separate hardiness components (involving, control, risk taking) for the health self-esteem formation; results - the developed and tested the diagnostic methodical complex, the program of optimization of the students' attitude to their own health may be used by the psychological service of HEI, the research results may be used in the learning process of HEI while teaching of the courses of "General Psychology", "Health Psychology", "Developmental Psychology", "Pedagogical Psychology"; field -psychology.
