CORRELATION OF THE STRESS LEVEL AND THE AUTOEVALUATION OF STRESS RESISTANCE WITH COPING STRATEGIES OF BEHAVIOUR

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the research of correlation of the stress level and the autoevaluation of stress resistance with the coping strategies of behavior. It is defined that stress, stress resistance and coping strategies of a person are important components in his life as stress is the natural state in the organism system of a human being created by nature to turn on the inner mechanism of his motivation to life and is the most important training instrument for survival; stress resistance is the reaction and the development of the reacting mechanisms in the organism system of a person to the unexpected stress and stressful situations in his life; coping strategies of a person we will understand as using personal behavior, individual reactions and his mechanisms while coping with stress and unexpected stressful situations. Recent theoretical researches on the stress problem, stress resistance and coping strategies of a person are analyzed. The research of correlation between the stress level, the autoevaluation of stress resistance and the coping strategies of a person is organized and held. 315 tested people (265 women and 50 men) at the age from 15 to 62 took part in the research. The procedure of research was held during convenient for the tested people time, individually and confidentially. Empirical investigation was released with the help of psychological instrumentarium: psychological stress scale PSM-25, autoevaluation of stress resistance test and intimate questionnaire “SACS”. In the psychological science the signs of stress, stress resistance and coping strategies of a person were regarded in the system of human health on the physiological, behavioral, emotional and intellectual levels. There were defined such coping strategies that enable and/or oppose the raise of stress resistance and annihilation of the feeling of stress as assertive actions, entering social contact, impulsive actions, avoiding, indirect actions, antisocial actions, aggressive actions.