The Development of Coping Strategies: Main Approaches

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of development of coping strategies as one of the factors of correction of psychoemotional disorders in women with hyperandrogenia. The nature of coping strategies is analyzed. Two approaches to the development of coping strategies – the concept of mindfulness, proposed by John Kabat-Zinn, and the concept of hardiness, proposed by S. Maddi. In conception of Kabat-Zinn mindfulness involves a feeling of full involvement in the events “here and now”, as well as the obligation to be curious about the flow of consciousness: all thoughts and feelings that arise in the person should be perceived by it without criticism, as relevant to the current state and therefore do not require condemnation. At the same time, by S. Muddy hardiness is a combination of inclusion in the surrounding reality (commitment), control, denoting the belief of the individual in their own abilities to influence the stressful situation, although without certain guarantees of the result, and the challenge, representing the belief that any changes are fundamentally positive for the individual and contribute to its development. It is shown that the content of the category of mindfulness – the management of attention and the adoption of the position “here and now” – as well as the methods of its development, are similar in each of the concepts. It is concluded that mindfulness, which is the core of productive coping strategies, is a set of concentration skills and a certain attitude.