Coping Under Extreme Conditions

Abstract

The role of coping dispositions in predicting coping with a potentially traumatic event (PTE; situational coping) has been bypassed. We explored the degree to which the dispositional coping of 103 mountain rescuers predicted coping with their last PTE. Dispositional venting of emotions and turning to religion explained more than half of the variance in the use of the same strategy to cope with the PTE. Most coping dispositions predicted about 30% to 40% of the variance in comparable situational coping. Dispositional denial did not predict situational use of denial. Multivariate dispositional coping style explained a great deal of the variance in most situational coping responses. Dispositional coping was more relevant than situational to participants' global psychological distress and explained about one-fourth of the variance in distress. These results suggest that most dispositional styles considerably impact coping with PTE but to the extent that varies across different coping styles.

Medico-social and psychological model of rehabilitation of children with neurotic disorders who are in foster families under conditions of social stress

“…Psychotherapeutic correction, in turn, requires the development of an applied psychological model of rehabilitation at various levels. It makes it possible to reduce the maladaptive protective activity of the patient, promote the restoration of broken personal relationships, to improve awareness of one's capabilities in conflict resolution (Eterović et al, 2022;Tyrer et al, 2021a). For differentiated and adequate therapy of such patients, an analysis of the relationship between personal characteristics and neurotic disorders is necessary.…”