Features of coping behavior in people living in radioactively contaminated territories of Russia

Abstract

Main personal and social coping resources (personal, micro-social, macro-social) providing adaptive coping strategies (“assertive actions”, “coming into social contact”, “seeking social support”) in inhabitants of radioactively contaminated territories were studied. The study was conducted in 2008 in Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol and Tula regions radioactively contaminated after Chernobyl accident. 221 people took part in the study. Abramova’s technique for studing social and psychological problems of radioactively contaminated territories inhabitants and Hobfoll's Strategic Approach to Coping Scale (SACS) were used. It is shown that in a part of the inhabitants rent (compensation) attitudes were developed. The obtained results allow to determine individual techniques of social assistance supporting people living in radioactively contaminated territories of Russia.