Abstract: Dynamism and originality of the processes occurring in society being the most distinctive features of modern Russian reality, determine the new nature of requirements for professional activity and hence for specialist training system. Young people tend in the current context to self-expression and comfort, realizing the need for the formation of purposeful activity and possibility to be well versed in the professional world. General psychological competence of the expert becomes a significant component of his professional success, ensuring his competitiveness. Purpose of this study is to identify the role of emotional intelligence in the process of adaptation of a person to exquisite situations serving as a traumatic factor that ensures personal psychological stability. This study deals with emotional intelligence as a complex personal construct that ensures both adaptation of a person to the changing social conditions and its psychological stability. We have studied the relations between emotional intelligence and coping behavior of personality. We have demonstrated empirical studies on the relations between the ratio of emotional intelligence component structure and structure of the individual coping strategies with an example of students of the humanitarian department. The created diagnostic system helps to reveal aspects of development and the level of severity of personal emotional intelligence as well as to have intentional effect on the development of main components of the integral characteristics, providing thereby psychological support to the readiness of a student’s personality for self-fulfillment.