RESOURCE APPROACH TO PERSONALITY OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS SITUATIONS
Abstract
The article is devoted to the problem of determining the peculiarities of application of the resource approach to overcoming crisis situations.
The purpose of the article is to empirically study the resources of individuals in difficult life situations, to relate the index of resourcefulness, post-traumatic growth and the resiliance of oncopathic patients to remission.
Research methods: loss and acquisition questionnaire (N. Vodopyanova, M. Stein), based on the resource concept of psychological stress by S. Hobfall, posttraumatic growth questionnaire (R. Tadesh and L. Kalhoun, in adaptation by M. Magomed-Eminov); Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). The study involved 106 female patients between the ages of 23 and 72 years with a clinical diagnosis of breast Ca (T2N1M0, stage IIb). All women at the time of diagnosis had no distant metastases, and lymph nodes were only partially affected, all of them were in 1-3 year remission.
Results of the study: low levels of resourcefulness were found in women over 50 years of age, regardless of the duration of their remission, high levels of resourcefulness are demonstrated by women aged 36 to 50 years, and medium – younger than 36 years, differences between groups are statistically significant. The pronounced resistance has been found in women under 50, but after 50 years its level is significantly reduced. Moderate post-traumatic growth is demonstrated by all subjects, they have high scores on the scale of "increase in the value of life", the oldest examinees received a high scale "spiritual changes", other scales of this technique in all women are moderate, none of them has a low level of post-traumatic growth.
Conclusions: according to the results of correlation analysis, positive statistically significant correlations between the resource index, post-traumatic growth and resistance were established. That is, the higher the resource index, the better balanced life frustrations and achievements and higher adaptive capacity of the individual, less stressful vulnerability, which, in turn, causes post-traumatic growth and resilience, especially relevant for cancer patients who have long-term physical illness, and psychological effort.
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