After almost three years of the pandemic related to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, at the beginning of the academic year 2022/2023, readiness to return to full-time education and selected psychological dispositions of 206 civilian students of the Naval Academy were examined. The relationship between students’ attitudes towards the situation of returning to full-time teaching and selected psychosocial conditions such as rumination-reflection, ego resilience, ways of coping with stress and personality dimensions were analyzed. Both groups of respondents differ in terms of their psychological resources, although differently than originally assumed. It turned out that students who want to return to face-to-face learning, and for whom this situation is not an overwhelming problem, do not have better psychosocial characteristics than students who prefer distance learning. The conclusions of this study may help us understand a certain aspect of students’ mental well-being, a different relationship with the environment than before, and the kind of education that we have not yet experienced.
