Specialists’ basic behavioural coping strategies when handling stressful situations
Keywords:
adaptive behaviour, anxiety, behavioural strategies, professional stress, psychological well-being.
Abstract
The professional activity of a modern specialist is significantly impacted by various stressful situations. Professional stress causes specialists’ anxiety, which negatively affects their well-being. The choice of adaptive strategies for handling stressful situations is the key to successful professional activity and emotional stability. The ability to choose the most productive coping strategies enables a specialist to quickly handle any stressful situations.
The aim of this study is to identify the anxiety level and prevailing coping strategies of specialists with different stress levels.
Methods. The research involved the method of analytical information processing and methods of empirical diagnostics. The following statistical methods were used: the Kruskal–Wallis test and the Spearman correlation coefficient.
Results. The obtained results revealed that specialists with a high stress level have high personal and situational anxiety, the prevailing coping strategies are confrontation, escape, seeking social support and distancing (р≤0.001). Specialists with a low stress level showed low anxiety and coping strategies of self-control, problem solving, and positive reappraisal (р≤0.001).
Conclusions. It was empirically proved that the stress level affects the choice of coping strategy. Specialists with high stress levels have high anxiety and maladaptive coping strategies.
Prospects. The obtained results can be implemented in the creation of a programme for the development of adaptive coping strategies of specialists in order to productively handle stressful situations.
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Vachet, J. (2022). Coping Strategies and Defence Mechanisms. In Fantasy, Neoliberalism and Precariousness (Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 67-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-307-220221003
Vasan, M. (2018). Impact of Job Stress on Job Satisfaction among the Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology, 11, 3759-3764. 10.5958/0974-360X.2018.00688.1
Welbourne, J. L., Eggerth, D., Hartley, T. A., Andrew, M. E., & Sanchez, F. (2007). Coping strategies in the workplace: Relationships with attributional style and job satisfaction. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 70, 312–325.
Yaribeygi, H., Panahi, Y., Sahraei, H., Johnston, T. P., & Sahebkar, A. (2017). The impact of stress on body function: A review. EXCLI Journal, 16, 1057-1072. https://doi.org/10.17179/excli2017-480
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2022-12-30
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Meloian, A., Pohribna, A., Kiian, A., Sharypin, A., & Bulavina, O. (2022). Specialists’ basic behavioural coping strategies when handling stressful situations. Amazonia Investiga, 11(60), 102-112. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.60.12.10
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