COORDINATING BEHAVIOR AS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE PROTECTIVE MECHANISMS OF HUMAN PSYCHE: A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF THE PROBLEM
The results of the implementation of the method of theoretical analysis in relation to the study of the problem of coping behavior are presented. Analyzing the works of foreign researchers (the works of J. Weillant, G. Hartmann, T. Crowber, R. Lazarus, R. White, S. Folkman, A. Freud, Z. Freud, N. Hahn, etc.), we consider it is possible to say that, despite the existence of different approaches to the study and interpretation of coping behavior, all scientists agree that coping (coping behavior) is a person's perceived model of behavior aimed at solving difficult life situations he is experiencing. We found confirmation of the ideas of foreign researchers from domestic scientists (the works of K.A. Abulkhanova-Slavskaya, N.L. Karpova, L.A. Kitaev-Smyk, A.B. Leonova, D.A. Morosanova, O.R. Tenna, S.O. Shchelina, etc.), who also consider coping in the context of analyzing the situation, personality and individual perception of the surrounding reality by a person. Based on the analysis of theoretical approaches to understanding the phenomenon of «coping» presented both in the works of foreign researchers and in the works of domestic scientists, we tend to understand it as a special, purposeful and very complex socially-oriented behavior of a person that ensures his productivity, health, and also, - psychological and social-personal well-being. Our analysis of the studies made it possible to put forward a hypothesis that the formation of the experience of coping behavior, on the one hand, is a prolonged process and is carried out throughout a person's life, and, on the other, is objectively related to the typological and personal characteristics of the subject. Based on this assumption, the focus of our further immersion in the problem of coping personality behavior, we determined the study of the specifics of coping behavior in women who have been living in a crisis for 30 years.