ДОВІРА І ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ, ЩО СПРИЯЮТЬ УСПІШНОМУ ПЕРЕЖИВАННЮ ТРАВМАТИЧНИХ СИТУАЦІЙ

Abstract

The article goal is to investigate correlations between trust and those personal constructs that contribute to successful overcoming of difficult traumatic situations: psychological hardiness, positive self-attitude, coping strategies, etc. Methods. The appropriate Wiesbaden Questionnaire for Positive Psychotherapy and Family Psychotherapy (WIPPF) was used to study trust. To study personal constructs contributing to successful overcomіng of difficult traumatic situations, the following methods were used: Ways of Coping Questionnaire (Lazarus and Folkman), Maddi’s Hardiness Survey, Stolin & Pantileev’s Personality Self- Attitude Questionnaire, Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, General Causality Orientations Scale (Dessi, Ryan). 220 respondents with the average age of 33 years, students and specialists from various specialties, 180 women, 40 men took part in the study. Results. Several negative correlations were found between the attitude to trust and indicators that reduce an individual’s ability to overcome successfully a traumatic experience: maladaptive coping strategies, evaluation of past experiences as negative, feeling the present as hopeless, fatalistic. On the contrary, several positive correlations were found between the attitude to trust and an individual’s ability to overcome successfully a traumatic experience: adaptive coping strategies, life hardiness, positive self-attitude and self-esteem, self-interest, evaluation of the past as positive, orientation to the future, internal motivation for one’s own actions and deeds. Conclusions. Trust in the world, people and oneself, existing fundamental assumptions about the benevolence and meaningfulness of the world around, about the dignity of an individual oneself support the characteristics that contribute to successful overcoming of difficult traumatic situations: hardiness, positive self-attitude, used adaptive coping strategies, etc. In turn, these characteristics contribute to effective overcoming of stressful situations, prevent traumatization because stressful life events, and thus do not allow trust to decrease.