SELF-ATTITUDE AND COPING BEHAVIOR AS CONDITIONS OF WELL-BEING AND ACTIVITY OF MEDICAL WORKERS IN OLD AGE

Theoretical analysis of the problem connected with the search for the psychological conditions of maintaining social activity of elderly shows that self-attitude and coping self–control can be considered as the internal conditions of vital productivity in the late adulthood. The article deals with the identification of the age changes of self-attitude and coping of medical workers who actively continue their professional activity in order to describe the psychological conditions of subjective well-being at the advanced age. Our empirical research involved employees of Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil healthcare institutions (aged 32 to 74, N = 47). To describe self-relation, the author applied the personal differential technique. E. Heim's method was applied to diagnose coping mechanisms. The level of well-being was identified by the means of the asthenia, hospital anxiety and depression scale and the scale of psychological stress. It was demonstrated that employees of medical institutions working in old age preserve subjective well-being. Among medical professionals under 40 years of age self–respect is connected to emotional coping (p < 0.01). At the older age personal activity is connected to coping self-control (p < 0.05). In the agegroup between 40 and 60 copingis not connected to self–attitude.