Psychological Features of Defense Mechanisms and Coping Strategies in Psychosomatic Patients Cardiovascular Profile
The paper substantiates the necessity of studying defense mechanisms and coping mechanisms in psychosomatic patients with cardiovascular profile. The role of coping strategies and personal response to the formation of the sense of the disease is shown. Examined differences and types of protective coping in groups of patients with ischemic heart disease and cerebral arteriosclerosis. Substantiated psychological and methodological tools for diagnosing psychological features of defense mechanisms and coping strategies of patients with cardiovascular profile and patients with cerebral atherosclerosis. Identified and statistically substantiated age depending dominance of certain defense mechanisms and coping strategies, relationship health, activity and mood with attitude to illness and satisfaction of coping with it.