Comment Head of the master's qualification work, performed under the theme: the RELATIONSHIP of risk BEHAVIOR AND PSYCHOLOGICAL defense MECHANISMS of STUDENTS ' PERSONALITY Lyakhova Anastasia Valeryevna efficiently completed the entire program of training and professional development master's degree, with preparation in the direction of "personality psychology" at the faculty of psychology St. Petersburg state University. During his studies he showed himself as very interested in learning, disciplined and responsible student. The entire curriculum it performed on time with excellent performance. The thesis subject was chosen Lyakhov A.V. independently and she was able at the initial stage of preparation to organize your research process, throughout the implementation period of the thesis has reached the planned milestone results, which allowed her to get great grades for all of the interim assessment of the research work. During the preparation of the dissertation research Lyakhova V. A. actively participated in the Cathedral and faculty research work. Testing the results of her research took place in the form of publications on the correspondence of the two psychological conferences, and she published an article in a peer-reviewed international journal "Psychology and pedagogy". Characteristic of a personality Anastasia Valeryevna is the friendliness and willingness to support other people. It has actively provided help to other students. So during the preparation and conduct of teaching practice, she was the organizer and successful participant reports for bachelors of economic faculty of St. Petersburg state University. The expertise and kindness in dealing contributed to the fact that Lyakhova V. A. was able to organize the collection of empirical information on the topic of his dissertation research at the economic faculty of St. Petersburg state University. All it surveyed 74 students, what appears to be a full sample to ensure scientific and practical conclusions in the thesis. Performing qualifying work allowed Anastasia Valeryevna to demonstrate their competence in the field of statistical methods of processing of empirical information, as well as their analytical skills, and thoroughness in performing the analysis and description of empirical results. We can say that the whole process of learning and preparation of final qualifying work Lyakhova and A.V. performed with high efficiency and deserves an excellent rating for their academic and research work. Candidate of psychological Sciences associate Professor of psychology and pedagogy personal and professional development Pedanova E. I. 23.05.2016.