Studying the relationship between the features of coping behavior and social activity of an individual in conditions of social and labor uncertainty

Abstract

Solving problems from the sphere of professional and social life, a person faces situations of uncertainty. The inability to predict the course of events and their dynamics creates the tension of physical, spiritual, professional and psychosocial forces, which, on the one hand, makes adjustments to the social activity of a person and, on the other hand, transforms the processes of cognitive activity, contributing to a reassessment of the resulting situation and the search for effective means of coping with it. The empirical part of the work was carried out on a sample of 110 respondents aged 15 to 25, using specially selected methods aimed at studying the relationship between the features of coping behavior of young people and their social activity in conditions of uncertainty. The statistical analysis was carried out using the comparative and correlation analysis. The results obtained allowed stating that the prerequisites for overcoming the situation of social and labor uncertainty for men and women is a varied ratio of coping behavior characteristics and forms of social activity. Women demonstrate a universal undifferentiated ratio of the strategies of “taking responsibility” and “positive revaluation” with the Internet network (r=0.47; p<0.01), leisure-communicative (r=0.39; p<0.01), educational-developmental activity (r=0.41; p<0.01) both in a labor situation and in a situation of social uncertainty. Men tend to have a more differentiated ratio of coping behavior characteristics and forms of social activity. Specific for a situation of social uncertainty is the ratio of the altruistic (r=0.46; p<0.01) and socio-economic (r=0.42; p <0.01) activity of men with the manifestation of a self-control strategy. In a situation of labor uncertainty, the ratio of protest activity and a positive revaluation strategy is productive (r=0.43; p<0.01).