CAREER DOWNSHIFTING AS A STRATEGY FOR COPING WITH JOB LOSS
The author examines career downshifting as a variant of social and professional réadaptation of the unemployed. An online survey of 293 people was conducted. The survey polled respondents who had abandoned the traditional employment and changed their everyday life style. Then a sample of 43 downshifters was formed. All of them had meaningful experience of downshifting and had been jobless for long. The results of the diagnostic study are given. They prove that most of the participants who decided in favor of downshifting during the unemployment period have a rather high level of social-psychological adaptation and are saticfied with their new status and life-stile. Further perspectives of research in this sphere are defined. First of all, it is the development of a psychological concept of downshifting.