FEATURES OF THE SELF-CONCEPT AND COPING BEHAVIOR OF PEOPLE WITH ALCOHOL ADDICTION

Abstract

Despite the fact that by now alcoholism as a negative social phenomenon has been widely studied by scientists of various fields, the problem continues to be one of the most urgent and intractable. This negative social phenomenon causes enormous damage to society, adversely affects people's health, reduces life expectancy, reduces working capacity, thereby worsening the quality of human resources and limiting socio-economic development. The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that the socio-psychological analysis of the problem remains extremely insufficient at this time. Usually, the main place in its study belongs to clinical and psychological research. At the same time, the socio-psychological aspect is clearly visible in the problem under consideration. It is connected with the study of the Self-concept and interpersonal communication as significant resources for overcoming life difficulties. At the same time, coping and the mechanisms of psychological protection of a person dependent on psychoactive substances, their specifics and interrelation, as well as the phenomenon of the Self-concept itself, have also not been fully studied and require more careful consideration. In this regard, the article attempts to generalize and analyze theoretical and methodological approaches to the definition of the concept of the Self-concept of a healthy person, the features of the Self-concept and the causes of its distortion in a person with addiction, as well as to consider coping behavior models used by people with alcohol dependence, which can provide theoretical grounds for creating effective programs to prevent alcohol addiction, as well as to help form an active problem-solving behavior that allows people to cope with a pathological attraction to alcohol.