Personal Determinants of Stress-Coping Behaviour Demonstrated by Employees of The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters

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10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

individual psychological characteristics, personal determinants, coping strategy, stress-coping behavior

Abstract

This paper analyses individual, psychological, personal characteristics, tolerance to stress, resilience and coping behavior of specialists working in extreme environments. To identify personal determinants of stress-coping behavior demonstrated by male employees of Emergencies Ministry of Russia we interviewed 84 employees of the Moscow Regional Firefighting Service using the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) developed by R. Cattell and Hobfoll’s Strategic Approach to Coping Scale (SACS). The data were statistically processed by software program SPSS 16.0.2 and analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Study of stress-coping behavior showed that the majority of research subjects used a “healthy” coping strategy manifesting itself in relatively active, assertive behavior, readiness for social contact, seeking of social support combined with low indicators of aggressive and asocial behavior. Regressive analysis of active coping strategy set the multiple correlation coefficient and identified the following reliable determinants of active stress-coping behavior: intellectual (B factor), emotional (C, H factors) and regulatory (G factor) attributes, whereas determinants of passive coping strategy were communicative (L factor) and emotional (O factor) personality traits. Regressive analysis suggests that the choice of coping behavior strategy is determined by personal characteristics. The research findings can be used while recruiting employees of The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM of Russia) as well as taking preventive, remedial measures and providing psychological counselling to reinforce “healthy” coping strategies and if necessary to develop new behavioral patterns.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Olga Lobza
AU  - Varvara Korotkova
AU  - Tatiana Bunakova
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Personal Determinants of Stress-Coping Behaviour Demonstrated by Employees of The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters
BT  - Proceedings of the II International Scientific-Practical Conference "Psychology of Extreme Professions" (ISPCPEP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 127
EP  - 129
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.30
DO  - 10.2991/ispcpep-19.2019.30
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