Coping in Times of Uncertainty and Global Risks: The Main Research Trends
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2022-24-6-760-771
Abstract
This article reviews foreign and domestic publications on the psychology of coping. Until the early XXI century, coping studies followed three research lines: 1) situations perceived as "difficult", 2) coping strategies and/or styles, 3) their relationships with personal and environmental coping resources. The current global situation of uncertainty and risks has affected the strategy of coping studies. They now demonstrate a more complex and holistic vision of the interaction between the person and the situation that requires coping. The interaction pattern follows three main research trends: 1) Personal coping resources are understood not as specific personal dispositions or cognitive characteristics, but as complex features that require new research methods; 2) New empirical material proves the ambiguity of correlation between various human coping strategies and psychological well-being; 3) Procedural features of coping and its anticipatory capabilities acquire more scientific attention.
Keywords
stress,
psychological adaptation,
coping strategies,
personal and environmental coping resources,
coping with uncertainty,
global risks
Supporting agencies: The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 22-18-00230 "Predictors of psychological adaptation of personality in the situation of global risks of the digital world: intergenerational and gender analysis"
About the Author
E. P. Belinskaya
Moscow State Lomonosov University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena P. Belinskaya
Moscow
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