coping strategies

The results of the empirical research of coping strategies carried out on a selection of modern young people (n = 220; 19–30 years old) are presented. Appliance of questionnaires such as «Adaptive strategies of behaviours» by N. N. Melnikova, «Detector of coping strategies» by D. Amirkhan, «Scales of coping strategies» R. Lazarus, «Motivation to succeed» and «Failure avoidance motivation» by T. Ehlers, multiplefactor personality questionnaire by R. Cattell, J.

The article presents data on studying correspondence between psychological defense mechanisms and coping strategies in teenage and adolescent years within the context of a unified system of self-regulation and adaptation. The relevance of research into defensive-coping behavior is conditioned by the need to understand interaction between defense mechanisms and coping strategies in teenage years and adolescence, as well as to solve the practical problem, i.e.

Urgency of the study of coping and protective strategies peculiarities in educators is conditioned by the presence of negative and unsafe behavioral manifestations related to complicated stressful situations in their professional activity and everyday life. The purpose of the study is to investigate and analyse preference tendencies regarding protective and coping strategies in the behaviour of educators at various stages of professional development.

The goal of the empirical study described in the article was to identify the cross-cultural characteristics of coping strategies and psychological well-being undertaken on a sample of the Russian (n = 70) and the French (n = 70) students aged 18 to 25 years old using the following psychodiagnostic tools: “Scale of psychological well-being” (by C. Riff, adapted by N. N. Lepeshinsky), “Ways of Coping Questionnaire” (WCQ, adapted by T. L. Kryukova and E. V. Kuftyak).

The article presents the results of the study of coping strategies and life-purpose orientations of graduates of an orphanage at an Orthodox monastery in Guatemala (N = 60). The relevance of the study is conditioned by the possibility of forming recommendations regarding organization of the upbringing process in both secular and religious orphanages, based on the understanding of characteristics under study and the relationship between them.

The article presents the results of empirical study of relationships between the dominant coping strategies and accentuation of personality traits among secondary school teachers (N = 40) carried out using psycho-diagnostic tools: Questionnaire «Strategies for overcoming stressful situations» (Stevan E. Hobfoll in adaptation of N. Vodopianova and E. Starchenkova), characterological questionnaire (K. Leonhard in adaptation of V. M. Bleicher).