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Background. In the psychological sense coping is defined as the spectrum of overcoming activity – from unconscious psychological defense to conscious and purposeful overcoming of difficult or stressful life-situations (R. Lazarus & P. Folkman, P. Spilberg, D. Terry, P. Teylor, L. Burlachuk & O. Korzhova, K. Muzdibaev, S. Nartova-Bochaver, T. Tytarenko); the process of “positive” successful adaptation to new cultural environment or post-stress growth (K. Oberg, M. Seligman). Factor approach is basic for this study. The objective of this study was to investigate positive and negative factors which influence the specifics of coping behavior and coping-strategies as adaptative strategies of the Ukrainian forced migrant male youth male in comparison with young adult male non-migrants who do not have the stress of forced internal moving experience. Method. A quasi-experimental design for non-equivalent groups singled out on the basis of their coping strategies and coping resources, estimated by the scales COPE by C.S. Carver, CRIS by K.B. Matheny et al. was chosen. The data was clastered with K-averages. The groups were analyzed according to t-Student’s, r-Pearson’s criteria against the characteristics measured by the battery of questionnairs LSC by J.B. Rotter, Purpose-in-Life Test by J. Crumbaugh & L. Maholick, SA & TA by C.D. Spilberger, EPQ by H. Eysenck, FPI by Friberg psychoanalytical group, reflection index as plural cognitive-emotional score by A.V. Karpov. All scales and questionnairs are adapted by Russian and Ukrainian authors. Sample. 110 adolescent male participants, 50 Ukrainian forced migrants and 60 non-migrants, aged 17 – 22. Results. Adolescent forced migrant males demonstrated restricted potential to use their coping resources and as a result low level of positive adaptation or post-stress growth, they also scored lower in reflection index, the sense of purpose-in-life, internal locus of control (which appeared to be directed towards the past) and were higher in the anxiety score. Conclusions. The major research finding is that a forces mirgant’s prospects of positive adaption or post-stress growth appear to be more favorable in case of high indices of productive cоping-strategies, and the more the cоping-strategies and cоping-resources to be used. It was also shown too that the forced migration trauma negatively changes all components of forced male migrants’ “positive” adaptation except copings in family situations. |
