Abstract
This article highlights the research fi ndings of the peculiarities of using secular and re-ligious coping strategies by women of different age groups (from age 19 to 70). Focusing on describing age dynamics in coping strategies, it shows that the tendency to use one or other methods of coping with diffi culties is age-related. The research revealed the differences with regard to the object of control in problematic situations and resource origin between two age groups: early and late adulthood. Additionally, it is assumed that women’s subjec-tive resource of overcoming diffi culties includes emotional self-control, while their objective resource--educational level and employment.
Highlights
Everyone faces problematic situations that have to be solved
Diehl Manfred, Coyle Nathan, Labouvie-Vief Gisela have come up with the following idea: cognitive re-interpretation in people who are in late adulthood will take place in a situation which is viewed as a challenege to their life principles
The survey has shown that 50% of the women aged 55-70 often apply religious coping strategies and more than half (61%) of them often resort to secular ways of solving their life problems
Summary
221 women of five age groups participated in the study: aged 19-21 (45 participants), 22-27 (58 participants), 28-39 (67 participants), 40-54 (23 participants), 5570 (28 participants). 62,9% of them have higher education degrees, 24,4% – have not completed their higher education programmes, 11,8% – hold a vocational secondary education degree , and 0,9% – have completed a secondary education. The two empirical indicators of this research are women age and secular/religious ways of overcoming difficulties. In its part on secular coping strategies, this study is based on The Methodology of Research of Ways to Overcome Difficulties by R. To process the data received we have used quantity methods of mathematical and statistical analysis (computer package STATISTICA in version 8.0) These were the methods of descriptive statistics, cluster analysis (following the algorithm of k-means according to the studies), comparative analysis following Student’s t-criterion, unifactor dispersion analysis (variations analysis and Henry Scheffe’s test), correlation analysis, discriminatory analysis. The following differences were revealed for the groups of women of various ages (Fig. 1)
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