Anxiety as a Strategy of the Behavior of the Person With Health Disabilities
The issue of anxiety is one of the most relevant in the contemporary psychology since it can signal about the danger and draws attention to possible situation hardships, obstacles to reaching the aim, makes it possible to mobilize forces and thus gain the best result. However the extremely high anxiety level is considered as a maladaptation reaction which manifests itself in the general behavior and activity disorganization.The purpose of this article is to study the influence of anxiety on the choice of behavior coping strategies of a person with disabilities.Material and methods. The study was conducted from November 2018 to November 2019 in the City of Vitebsk. Sixteen young people aged 19 to 24 with health disabilities took part in the research. Among the 12 were girls and 4 were boys. The following methods were used: diagnostic methods, methods of quantitative and qualitative processing of empirical data, including methods of mathematical statistics.Findings and their discussion. A disease, an injury or defect leading to disability which do not affect the physiological components of the individual body which are the deviation from the functional norm, lead to the consequences, behind which there is a situation of a special psychological climate for a person, difficult living conditions, namely, the emergence of a specific social and psychological situation. The emerging changes acquire a direct relationship with the onset of disability; there is a rapid decline in the function of meeting the necessary needs, as well as the acquisition of social, professional and personal self-implementation of the individual. As a result, a state of frustration takes place, i.e. a situational response to the dysfunction to get what is needed; then an individual response to strategies of a non-constructive nature that put an obstacle on the way to overcoming a difficult situation manifests itself.Conclusion. The research materials were used in elaborating a psycho-correction program which aims at the reduction of high level anxiety of people with health disabilities that was introduced at the Department of Applied Psychology of Vitebsk State P.M. Masherov University.