COPING BEHAVIOUR IN CHILDREN WITH NORMAL AND ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENT: NEW METHODOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR RESEARCH

Authors

  • N. F. Mikhaylova Author
  • A. V. Smirnova Author
  • E. A. Zhelobova Author
  • K. Yu. Maksimova Author

Abstract

The formation of coping behavior in children is influenced by the inner mechanisms of mental development, particularly, by sexual dimorphism. However, the course of ADHD and other developmental disorders distorts this influence to a considerable extent. The coping style of deaf children is characterized by destructive externalizing and distancing coping, which is
practically uncharacteristic of children of the same age with normal hearing. In deaf and hard of hearing children, the formation of a specific type of coping strategies takes place, namely, the formation of internal strategies of coping with stress, which, too, to a less extent are peculiar to children with normal sensory development.

Author Biographies

  • N. F. Mikhaylova
    Candidate of psychological sciences, assistant professor of developmental psychology and differential psychology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
  • A. V. Smirnova
    Candidate of psychological sciences, psychologist in Progymnasium № 701 “The Emerald City”, St. Petersburg.
  • E. A. Zhelobova

    oligophrenic pedagogue, Comprehensive Secondary School № 132 for Children with Mental Development Disorders at the S.S. Mnukhin Centre for Medical Rehabilitation “Child Psychiatry”, St. Petersburg

  • K. Yu. Maksimova
    Senior logopedist, City Hospital № 40, St. Petersburg

Published

2016-03-11

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Psychodiagnostics