COPING STRATEGIES OF PATIENTS WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA AND WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING

Abstract

The article deals with the main approaches to coping behavior and to subjective wellbeing of a person. Subjective wellbeing is regarded as a psychic state. The results of empirical study of subjective wellbeing of patients with bronchial asthma and their coping strategy are presented; their correlation is described taking into account the complex structure of wellbeing. It is established that the more a patient is inclined to describe wellbeing as something ending very fast, something pleasant, global, associated very little with him/herself, the more he/she is inclined to have strategies of mental distraction and applying for help. The more self-evaluation of tonus at wellbeing and adequate the image of oneself, the more the patient is inclined to have a positive revaluation of the situation and coping planning, to change the situation actively, to have a good sense of humor and not to use the strategy of negation. Such constituents of the emotional and evaluation component as «active attitude to life situation», «cheerfulness», «satisfaction from life on the whole», «stability of the emotional state» negatively correlate with behavioral escape from problems and taking psychoactive substances. The constituents «relaxedness» and «calmness» are also in reverse dependence on the strategy «acceptance».