Features of coping strategies and defense mechanisms for 1st and 4th year students with different levels of adaptability

• Published in: Конфликтология / nota bene 2024-02 (2), p.66-82
• Main Authors: Rostovtseva, Marina Viktorovna, Smirnaya, Anastasiya Andreevna, Novopashina, Larisa Aleksandrovna, Tkacheva, Anna Vladimirovna, Vladikin, Igor' Vil'yamsovich
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2454-0617; 2454-0617
• DOI: 10.7256/2454-0617.2024.2.70581

The subject of the study is the coping strategies and protective mechanisms of 1st and 4th year students with different levels of adaptability. Successful adaptation of a student is an important condition for successful educational and cognitive activity. Based on this, the problem of studying the adaptation process and determining the factors that affect the success of this process among students is relevant. Significant and important factors influencing the adaptation process of students are coping strategies and the protective mechanism of personality. Students of 1st (30 people) and 4th year (29 people) were examined. Significant differences were obtained in the groups of highly, medium and low-adaptive 1st and 4th year students in terms of psychological defense parameters and coping strategies. The study was conducted using the following methods: the methodology for diagnosing the socio-psychological adaptation of K. Rogers and R. Diamond, the Plutchik – Kellerman – Conte questionnaire "Lifestyle Index", the questionnaire "Methods of coping behavior" by R. Lazarus. The scientific novelty of the study is related to the results obtained in the diagnosis of coping strategies and defense mechanisms of the 1st and 4th year students with different levels of adaptability. 1st and 4th year students with a high level of adaptation have similar mechanisms of psychological protection, namely: rationalization, compensation, as well as similar types of coping strategies: problem solving planning, self-control, taking responsibility. 1st and 4th year students with a low level of adaptation have differences in the mechanisms of psychological protection, namely: 1st year students have such types of psychological protection as: regression; coping strategy – escape- avoidance; 4th year students have types of psychological protection – denial; coping strategy – search for social support.