Natalia V. Stepanova

The relevance is due to the high stressfulness of life in middle age, the need to increase stress resistance and overcome the negative consequences of stress. The purpose of the study is to identify differences in personal adaptive potential and stress coping strategies among men and women aged 45-59. The results showed that women are more sensitive to emotional losses and family problems, while men are more sensitive to health problems and financial difficulties. Men have more pronounced neuropsychological stability and behavioral regulation, while women have more pronounced moral normativity; men are more likely to demonstrate social interaction and cautious actions, while women are more likely to demonstrate impulsive actions.

The article presents brief theoretical analysis of the self-attitude and life satisfaction problem, as well as the results of empirical research of the self-attitude and life satisfaction components among medical students. It analyses differences in components of self-attitude and life satisfaction among boys and girls; it states the relationship between self-respect, sympathy for yourself, internal instability and life satisfaction in adolescence.

The paper presents a brief theoretical analysis of peculiarities of adaptive behavior in interpersonal conflict: the author discloses the definitions “adaptive behavior” and “adaptive behavior in interpersonal conflict”; provides guidance on the use of behavior strategies accounting the prevailing conflict situation and own character accentuations.

The paper presents the theoretical analysis of value orientations among modern young people and the results of the study of terminal values in life of students-psychologists. Leading positions in the hierarchy of terminal values of students-psychologists is a “private prestige”, “preserve their individuality” and “active social contacts”. These values are meaningful in the most important spheres of life such, as “training and education”, “professional life”, “hobbies”.