Сoping strategies of staff of educational and scientific organizations during the war: level of expression and relationship with mental health

- Карамушка, Л.М. (orcid.org/0000-0003-0622-3419) (2022) Сoping strategies of staff of educational and scientific organizations during the war: level of expression and relationship with mental health Журнал сучасної психології, 4 (27). pp. 31-40. ISSN 2310-4368

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Abstract

On the basis of empirical research, a number of problems have been identified regarding the use of coping strategies by educational and scientific personnel in war conditions, in particular, insufficient use of «active» and «productive» coping strategies. At the same time, certain changes in the use of coping strategies by the personnel of educational and scientific organizations during the war, compared to the pre-war period, were revealed: an increase in the use of such active and productive/semi-productive coping strategies as «problem-solving orientation» and «social distraction», which indicates a fairly active position of employees of educational and scientific organizations who perform significant social and professional roles. At the same time, it was established that in the conditions of war, the use of passive and unproductive coping strategies («avoidance», «distraction») by the personnel of these organizations increases somewhat, which is due, in particular, to the need to stabilize the mental state of the personnel of the organizations and the need for the personnel to restore personal resources, which is significant for maintaining mental health. It has been proven that the coping strategies of educational and scientific personnel in the conditions of war have a statistically significant relationship with mental health: the coping strategy «orientation on emotions» has a pronounced negative relationship with all components of mental health, which indicates about its «negative» status, while other coping strategies («task orientation», «social distraction», «avoidance» and «distraction») have a positive relationship with all or most components of mental health, which speaks of their «positive status». It is substantiated that in order to maintain and preserve the mental health of educational and scientific personnel, it is expedient to use coping strategies with a «positive» status, taking into account the indicators of a specific stressful situation that must be «overcome» (the need to solve the problem, stabilize the emotional state, the need pauses to «accumulate» forces, resources, etc.) and decrease the use of coping strategies with a «negative» status.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	negative emotional states, anxiety, frustration, aggressiveness, rigidity, positive mental health, locus of health control, personnel, Russian-Ukrainian war.
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 1 Philosophy. Psychology Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 304 Social questions. Social practice. Cultural practice. Way of life (Lebensweise) Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 37 Education > 37.01/.09 Special auxiliary table for theory, principles, methods and organization of education
Divisions:	Institute of Psychology after N.Kostiuk > Department of organizational and economical psychology
Depositing User:	Член-кореспондент НАПН України, доктор психологічних наук, професор, завідувачка лабораторії організаційної психології Інституту психології імені Г.С. Костюка НАПН України Л.М. Карамушка
Date Deposited:	11 Feb 2023 16:08
Last Modified:	11 Feb 2023 16:08
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/734256

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