Person-Centered Behavioral Coping Strategies Approached From A Basic Human Need

Abstract

The relevance of the research is explained by the need to study strategies/skills for behavior of people bearing hardship and understanding the origin of individualization of particular coping strategies. A significant aspect of the investigated issues is the influence of unfulfilled basic human needs on the behavioral strategy as a whole, determining the ways of overcoming/coping behavior. The article dwells upon the subject of identifying coping strategies, basic human needs, as well as studying person-centered individual strategies. The main field in studying this issue deals with making connections between individual copying strategies and basic personal needs. It allows the authors to consider issues of integrated understanding the subject of behavior approached from complete satisfaction, partial and complete dissatisfaction with the basic personal needs. The sampling results of the surveyed are analyzed with regard to the usage frequency of certain coping strategies. The authors find out that no matter what needs are taken as dissatisfied, partially satisfied, the proper types of coping strategies often used by personality are distinguished. The study shows that the subjects who experience whole and partial satisfaction of basic needs mainly use relatively adaptive coping strategies and coping mechanisms based on personal and environmental coping resources that enhance the ability to cope with human stress. Nevertheless, the respondents who feel dissatisfaction with the individual basic needs use less adaptive coping strategies that do not contribute to personal growth of coping strategies.