Coping Strategies in People with Disability and Differences in Level of Role Victimization

The article analyzes the coping strategies of people with disabilities (HIA). The investigation was based on a survey of 34 individuals with disabilities of the musculoskeletal system undergoing a rehabilitation course in "Specialized spinal sanatorium named academician N.N. Burdenko" of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea and in rehabilitation center "Overcoming" (Moscow). Also students of the Faculty of distance education at MSUPE (Moscow State University of Psychology and Education) with disabilities were surveyed because of violations of the musculoskeletal system. Significant differences in the coping strategies in people with perinatal, congenital and acquired adult disorders of the musculoskeletal system were found. In individuals with disorders of the musculoskeletal system, different level of victimization varied across the five strategies: search of social support, cautious action, impulsive actions, avoidance and antisocial actions.

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